“First of all, this is the service sector, catering, sports, education, leisure - in the amount of about 500 million within the current funding of the department,” TASS quotes Fursin as saying at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma commission.

He clarified that support for business will be provided through the redistribution of budget expenditures.

“On behalf of (Moscow Mayor -

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) Sergei Sobyanin, we are increasing the amount of support for human-intensive industries,” Fursin explained.

Earlier, Moscow businessmen asked to introduce state support measures against the backdrop of the beginning of non-working days.