On the first day, Russians applied for payments for children at a rate of 40 thousand times per minute
About 8 million Russians have applied for payments of 10,000 rubles to about 11 million children, Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov said in the Pozner program. The government did not expect that the offer would be so popular, he admitted: on the first day after the promise of payments, appeals were received at a speed of 40 thousand per minute. During the day, their number reached 2 million. On May 11, Vladimir Putin promised direct cash payments to families with children.