COVID-19 anti-crisis policy spending in Russia 2020-2021, by sector
The Russian government allocated nearly 640 billion Russian rubles to support small- and medium-sized businesses, individual enterprises, and self-employed in 2020 due to COVID-19 and its negative impact on the economy. Furthermore, almost 500 billion Russian rubles were planned to be spent on that sector in the following year. The total financial assistance to the population suffering from the pandemic exceeded 869 billion Russian rubles in 2020 and 2021.
