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The President of the Russian Cabinet Mikhail Mishustin during a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister listed the sectors most affected by COVID-19, which the government support, writes "RIA Novosti".

General Director of state Corporation "Russian Corporation of nanotechnologies", one of the ideologues and leaders of economic reforms in Russia 90-ies of the last century and the reform of the Russian electricity system in the zero Anatoly Chubais said that the Russian economy will be saved from collapse because of the pandemic coronavirus Stabilization Fund and the sound policies of the government.

Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) and social insurance funds (SIF) and obligatory medical insurance (FOMS) can lose up to 2.3 trillion rubles due to the impact of the pandemic COVID-19. This is stated in the review of the Institute for social policy studies "the Impact of the pandemic COVID-19 on the institutions of social insurance".

Well-known Russian economists wrote an open letter to the authorities, where he criticized the idea of "dead week" and called for a more active anti-crisis measures. Among the signatories — working abroad Sergei Guriev, Konstantin Sonin, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, and the rector of the Russian economic school Ruben Enikolopov. To save Russia from disaster, they offer to quarantine them, thus financially support the business, to protect health care workers, to ensure the availability of food and medicines, in large quantities to test people on coronavirus, not to hide the true information from the companies. “MK” talked with the authors of the letter.

Sudden weekend brought a lot of trouble and the farmers who have now just started a hot time. What do the heads of households who simply cannot afford downtime? We discussed with the Director of "Sovkhoz imeni Lenina" Pavel Grudinina.