MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. Backing the paying capacity of the population amid the ruble’s declining exchange rate may be included in the government’s anti-crisis plan, spokesman of Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets Alexey Levchenko told TASS on Thursday.
"Today new anti-crisis proposals are being developed, with backing of paying capacity being one of top-priorities while raising retirement payments and social allowances by the end of the first half of the year may be one of the key mechanisms," Levchenko said.
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