Russian govt raises financing for payments to refugees from Ukraine

MOSCOW, Apr 8 (PRIME) -- The Russian government has raised financing to refugees from the Donestk and Luhansk people’s republics and from Ukraine, the government said in a statement on Friday.

President Vladimir Putin earlier ordered the Russian authorities to pay 10,000 rubles to each refugee from Ukraine.

The Kursk Region will get 59.5 million rubles for the payment, the Voronezh Region 118.8 million rubles, the Belgorod Region 86.7 million rubles, the Stavropol Region 61.6 million rubles, the Bryansk Region 80.9 million rubles, the Krasnodar Region 103.7 million rubles, and Crimea 88.9 million rubles, the government said.

(76.2547 rubles – U.S. $1)

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