Prime Minister of Russia Michael Mishustin has included the media in the list of sectors affected by the pandemic coronavirus, according to the government website. It includes publishers of books, Newspapers, magazines, periodicals, television and radio stations, zines, news agencies.”Now the role of the media is particularly important: citizens should receive timely and reliable information about what is happening,” said Mr Mishustin.Support measures for the Russian media:For small and medium businesses are additionally provided:”Companies that due to various circumstances have technical debt for taxes and insurance premiums, may qualify for a subsidy, if the amount of such debt does not exceed 3 thousand rubles”,— stated in the explanatory note to the resolution.Earlier to include media in the list of victims from COVID-19 industries requested the Governor of Krasnoyarsk region Alexander USS, the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, government of Saint-Petersburg and Khabarovsk Krai government. The inclusion of the sector in the list of most of the victims have repeatedly asked its representatives in the Ministry of communications predicted the total losses of the media industry and the book industry to RUB 100 billion by the end of 2020.About how the support of the media was discussed in the state Duma, read in the material “Kommersant” “Deputies assembled package for the media.”
