The state Duma Committee on information policy will offer the government new measures to support the media and book industry. These industries propose to include in the list of the most affected, the proposal also regulatory holidays until the end of the year and the moratorium on price increase on paper. The Ministry of communications for the year predicts a decline of advertising in print twice.The state Duma Committee on information policy, information technologies and communications on the meeting, on 12 may discussed the new package of measures to support the media and publishing industry. (“B”acquainted with the broadcast of the meeting).The head of the Committee Alexander Khinshtein called the measures proposed by the industry, which the Committee would request the government of the Russian Federation — it is expected that the appeal will be sent may 12. The main measure Mr. Khinshtein called including television and radio, print publications, advertising campaigns, and the book industry in the list of the most affected by the pandemic coronavirus and their exemption from taxes and fees in 2020.”To date, the government there is no such decision. If the efforts of one Committee is insufficient, we may need to involve the state Duma as a whole,” he said. For publishers, the Committee proposes to consider the introduction of a moratorium on the growth of prices for paper and printing services. The Committee also proposes to add media to the list of non-food commodities. Earlier, Newspapers and magazines were not included in the Federal list, however the regional authorities had the opportunity to add them to their lists. In addition, we offer a number of grants for media support, including the Russian television and radio broadcasting networks to reduce prices for its services.Alexander Khinshtein added that the Committee plans to ask the government about the spread on the media “Supervisory holidays” until the end of 2020. In Roskomnadzor have already talked about the suspension of a planned monitoring of the media and the broadcasting until the end of June at the request of the Ministry of communications.It is also planned to include in the package zero payments for the lease of municipal and state ownership and “Bank holiday” with the introduction of a moratorium on repayment of interest and principal until the end of the year. Will discuss possible cancellation for publishers environmental fee, with annual payments of producers of goods subject to processing. At the same time, the proposed Ministry of communications liberalisation of the advertising legislation, in particular the permission to advertise in the media alcohol, mister Hinstein has called a “debatable issue”.”The most important thing at the moment is the inclusion in the list of particularly affected sectors. The media is, with rare exceptions, do not reduce staff and continue to implement fully all the features do not have the ability to adjust the numerical��t, but support in this matter also have no”,— said the head of the Union of enterprises of the printing industry Ruslan Novikov. Important he calls the idea of liberalization of the advertising market, which would help media companies “to raise funds on their own without seeking additional support from the state”. “You can enter exemptions for prescription drugs, tobacco, alcohol, with a limited validity period, for two or three years and then return to the limitations on the stabilization of the situation in the industry,” suggests Mr. Novikov.According to the Ministry of communications, by the end of 2020 TV advertising budgets can be reduced by about 25-30%, that is, the segment will lose 40-50 billion rubles of income. On radio, the Ministry expects falling advertising budgets by more than half or 8 billion rubles In some regions of the advertising on local radio has fallen by 80-90%, said Deputy Minister of communications Alexei Volin. He also predicts the decline of advertising in print is twice the loss of 7 billion rubles on media sites — a third or a quarter with a loss of 3-4 billion rubles In retail, according to the Ministry of communications, press sales could fall by 10 billion RUB, i.e. about a quarter the income from subscription for the year will fall by 4 billion rubles from the Book industry, according to Mr. Volin, due to closed shops loses about 1.5 billion rubles.monthly.Valeria Lebedeva, Yulia Silence
