VEB has provided loans to 123 billion rubles

State Corporation Vnesheconombank (VEB) last year provided the real sector loans totaling 123 billion rubles. This was announced today by the Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin at the meeting, he headed the supervisory board of VEB. "According to the program promote exports of innovative products were granted guarantees to 34 billion rubles, and the development of small and medium-sized businesses in 2009, directed 40 billion rubles," - said the prime minister. And, today, Russian companies have already returned to VEB 4,000,000,000 from $ 11 billion, which were provided to them in the midst of the crisis on the refinancing of debt owed to foreign creditors. He also recalled that EBV in 2009 gave credit institutions 404 billion rubles of subordinated loans.