"Reduction of wages affect about three thousand civil servants. According to our calculations, the total amount of the released funds is about 150 million rubles, they will be directed for other budgetary objectives,” the head of the administration Yuri Kupriyanov said.

The decision provides a 10% reduction of the government all members' salaries. In addition to the leadership, all other state officials had the annual indexation of salaries suspended.

"At the same time, all the commitments to raise salaries of public sector employees remain in force and will be fulfilled. As well as indexing of the minimum wage to the minimum subsistence level", Kupriyanov said.

Recommendations to reduce salaries will be given to local authorities, that should take a decision at their level.

We recall, head of Yakutia Yegor Borisov reduced of his salary to 10% from April 1.

In early March, President Vladimir Putin signed a series of decrees, according to which the salaries of senior government officials reduced by 10%.