The Ministry of Finance has budgeted more than 20 billion rubles for bonuses for security forces working at protests

The Ministry of Finance has budgeted more than 20 billion rubles from 2021 to 2023 for bonuses for police officers and National Guardsmen who work at protests. attention to the document published on the department’s website . drew Open Media

The methodology for calculating the maximum basic budget allocations of the federal budget states that employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “participating in ensuring law and order and public safety during mass events” will be allocated 5 billion 600 million rubles in 2021, and in 2022 and 2023 - 5 billion 800 million each rubles annually. This money will be used to pay monthly salary bonuses “for the complexity of the tasks performed.”

In addition, bonuses are provided to National Guard employees also working at mass protests. From 2021 to 2023, they will be allocated more than 1 billion 100 million rubles annually.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin established an allowance “for the complexity of the tasks performed” for police officers and National Guardsmen from Moscow, the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region at the end of January. According to the resolution, the amount of the bonus will be up to 100% of the monthly salary.

The bonuses were introduced after Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin thanked the security forces who worked at the summer protests. As the official assured, the security forces “maintained order on the streets of Moscow” and did not allow the organizers of the protests to “bring events to a critical point.”

According to OVD -Info, 67 people reported being beaten by security forces at summer protests in 2019