MOSCOW, April 3 (Itar-Tass) — The Moscow city authorities will inject extra 16 billion rubles into education and healthcare, mayor Sergei Sobyanin told a meeting of the city government on Tuesday.
The city’s education department will get 11 billion rubles additionally.
“This measure is taken, as most schools in Moscow have switched to a new standard of financing and education,” he said.
Moreover, Sobyanin instructed to allocate 5 billion rubles to the healthcare department “to buy medical equipment, health resort vouchers and other things necessary to provide medical assistance.”