Dmitry Mereshkin from St. Petersburg City Committee on Youth Policy and Co-operation with NGOs joined RT to talk about the support which the city government provides for NGOs and the tolerance programme.
"We have come to understand the growing problem of intolerance in our city. To solve this problem we have created a special tolerance programme. It provides more that 80 million roubles in government funding per year till 2010 to address these concerns.