Yakutia 24 TV channel: The republic budget allocates about 1,4 billion rubles to support small businesses, of which one billion rubles are tax benefits, 400 million rubles are direct subsidies and microloans.
“All these funds must be spent so that small businesses can feel real support,” emphasizes head of Yakutia Aisen Nikolaev at a meeting of the Coordinating Council for Entrepreneurship via video conferencing. He also notes that the main task of small business is to preserve jobs. The republic authorities will evaluate not only the effectiveness of the anti-crisis measures taken, but also the activities of small businesses.