“This program primarily concerns employees of foreign companies that have temporarily suspended their activities or have decided to leave Russia. According to our estimates, about 200,000 people are at risk of losing their jobs,” the mayor said.
The city council also says that it will grant subsidies to finance the professional retraining.
According to the mayor’s office, financial aid will be opened for families, by virtue of a recent presidential decree, and loans will be provided to small and medium-sized companies.
Finally, the city of Moscow claims to have built, without specifying when, three drug factories to compensate for the suspension of pharmaceutical imports, on which the Russians are highly dependent.
In this area, “we have a lot of work ahead of us, the results will take years to arrive,” Sobyanin said.