the Minister of labor and social protection of the Russian Federation Anton Kotkov explained why the authorities do not want spend the money from the national welfare Fund to assist the Russians during epidemics COVID-19. He told about it on air of the program “Pozner”, the release is available on Youtube.
TV Presenter of the program Vladimir Pozner during the conversation said that if all the national welfare Fund money was divided among the citizens, each citizen would have received for 54 thousand rubles. Similar measures were taken in many countries. For example, in Greece every resident of the state has to pay 800 euros, While the GDP of Greece and Russia are comparable, he said.
According to Kotyakova, the NWF was formed as an airbag, and hence the option of “Take and give all that was formed by the Ministry of Finance” was not considered. However, the authorities decided to resort to the “combined option” under which financial assistance is partly directly to the public, and partly aimed at stimulating the economy, so the company could keep state workers.
the Minister noted that the government helped the population to 570 billion rubles, which is quite a lot. Another 1.5 trillion rubles are earmarked for the support of enterprises in this year.
In mid-April, the Governor of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina said that the so-called “helicopter money” – direct payments to everyone without exception – are out of date Russia. In may it became known that the Central Bank is going to print up to 1.5 trillion rubles to close the hole in the budget, without resorting to spending from the national welfare Fund.
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