Moscow approves new anti-crisis measures for restaurants

MOSCOW, Jun 29 (PRIME) -- Moscow City Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has approved a package of additional anti-crisis measures to support restaurants including a delay in rent payments for July–October, the city government said in a statement on Tuesday.

“In order to soften the recently imposed restrictions, the Moscow City government has approved a package of additional support measures for restaurants. The ruling was signed by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin,” the statement read.

Rent payments for July–October are postponed for the end of 2021.

On June 18, Sobyanin prolonged anti-coronavirus restrictions, introduced in the city earlier in June, including limited operations of zoos, food courts, restaurants and parks, until Tuesday.

The city government also said, “Restaurants have been included in a program of subsidies to small and medium enterprises. The largest subsidy can be 1 million rubles that a recipient can use for one or several purposes including leasing of equipment, utility payments, repayment of interest on loans for business expansion, compensation for operations aimed at fighting with the new coronavirus disease.”

Moscow’s government also prolonged the program of preferential loans for small and medium businesses until the end of 2021.

“The loans can be issued for replenishment of working capital and investment. The size of such loans was expanded to 100 million rubles, and the term of the subsidized interest rate to 24 months,” the authority said.

(72.1777 rubles – U.S. $1)

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