He said this during a meeting of the United Russia faction.
“Today we have about 13.5% of the poor, which is almost 20 million people,” TASS quotes him.
As Rosstat reported in September, the population of Russia with incomes below the subsistence level in the second quarter increased by 1.3 million compared to the same period in 2019.
In July, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that fighting poverty remains a top priority for the Russian government.