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OREANDA-NEWS. The Russian government has decided to continue the program of demand support for cars in 2016. For a while we are talking only about the first half of year. The volume of planned support – is 20 billion rubles. It was informed by the Minister of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, in the TV channel "Russia 24".

"Concern the automotive industry, it was take the decision by the Prime Minister on the continuation of this program - to support the demand for the next year. And from January 1st, our auto industry will participate in the continuation of this program. It is, of course, the preferential leasing, the benefit car loans, and maintaining of demand through a program of recycling and trade-in. The decision was taken for a half of year in amount to about 20 billion rubles. But it will depend on how the production market will develop", - he said.

Mr. Manturov emphasized that the measures of financial support of the auto industry, which were provided in 2015, have made it possible to reduce the alleged fall from 50% to about 23-24%. "This is a significant impact on the reduction of recession. As for the volume of production and volume of the market, with the market of 1.6 million units of cars that were sold this year, almost 600 thousand cars were in varying degrees financed by the state", - said Mr. Manturov.