“During these months, three packages of anti-crisis measures have been taken. There was also a message from the president on Tuesday. And in the development of this appeal, just yesterday, the government took a number of additional measures, ”he said in an interview with the Zvezda television channel.

According to him, there are several additional measures, including additional subsidies to SMEs and non-profit organizations for the resumption of activities.

“We are talking about supporting those businesses whose activities are associated with long-term contact with the client and which in this regard have to bear additional costs associated with the implementation of sanitary and epidemiological requirements,” the minister explained.

As Reshetnikov noted, 20 billion rubles were allocated. We are talking about hotels, catering, household services sector.

“The size of the subsidy is calculated on the basis of a fixed part of 15 thousand rubles per company and individual entrepreneur plus 6.5 thousand rubles per employee in May,” he added.

In addition, the minister said, 116 billion rubles have been allocated for the implementation of the PHOT 2.0 program. The total volume of lending on it reached 468 billion rubles.

Earlier, independent financial and economic expert Alexander Trifonov in an interview with the FBA “Economics Today” commented on measures to support business in Russia.