17,000 participants from more than 130 countries, about 3,00 journalists, one and a half hundred thematic sessions , the twenty-seventh annual economic forum began in st. petersburg. the leading platform for communication. representatives of the business community and

discussion of the most important economic issues. the main theme this year is formulated as the basis of a multipolar world and the formation of new growth points. they will discuss the transition to a multipolar economy, technologies that ensure the leadership of countries, as well as the health of society and traditional values. the president will take part in the forum, and as assistant to the head of state yuri ushakov said, today vladimir putin will talk with the heads of world news agencies. tomorrow he will hold separate meetings with the leaders. and zimbabwe and the president of republika srpska, as well as with the head of the new development bank , dilma and rusev. on friday, the russian leader will speak at the plenary session. and today the motor ship viktor ostafiev was launched in st. petersburg. this is the first passenger ship built to operate in arctic. our correspondent dmitry akimov knows all the details. he joins us live. dim, greetings. so how did the ceremony go? yes,

alexander nikitin, i apologize, i lost a little here. host, yes, director of the intelka group, everything is correct, yes, everything is correct, good, yes, director of the fund promoting innovation, sergey polikov, founder of the brands evereno, fleola, estevika, denis spirin, general director of the sme corporation, alexander isaevich, it’s all simple , director of evasoft systems.

coming, yes, yes, mikhail, i greet you, chief managing director, chief strategist of the russian federation, mikhail khomich, vice-president of the chamber of commerce and industry, elena da dypova, deputy chairman of the board, oh, deputy chairman of the government of the moscow region, ekaterina zenoveva, and head of the defense service. consumer rights to ensure accessibility of financial services, member of the board of directors of the central bank, mikhail mamuta. yes, colleagues, i lost the leaflet with the speakers, i apologize, i hope i haven’t forgotten anyone, i named everyone correctly. well, if anything, i'll fix it. our session today is called promotion qualitative growth, strategies, tools for smes, well, let’s try to briefly present what the essence of our

today’s discussion is, if you remember, last year, by the way, i also see a lot of familiar faces who immediately asked this question to the audience, who was also at the plenary session a year ago, raise your hands, please, belous was also there, great, yes, well, i won’t test you, ask what was discussed, here the news flow moves quickly, in general, last time we discussed , the issue of sme exports was discussed, an important topic, but quite niche, after all, that is, this is a point of growth, but as noted last year, only 1% of enterprise specialists supply products for export, that is, today we, with... such a private, although important issue, are rising to the level strategic vision, well, there are several reasons, well , firstly, we have a new economic cycle, new goals, and secondly, by the way, let’s

remember what the conditions were, and macroeconomic a year ago, we had inflation around 3% , we also boasted that it is the lowest in europe, the rate is 75. rate key 7.5, there were no problems today, there, for example, with international payments, today everything is a little different. so, returning to the second reason why we decided to make this session strategic and general, because despite the rather strong change in macroeconomic conditions, fundamental trends, they remain basically the same, we have a structural transformation in full swing . economics, no matter how someone likes it or not, this is what i would like to talk about today, to somehow comprehend it, try to design a strategy, that is , we are fully moving towards some kind of new economy, perhaps it is not yet completely clear what exactly it will be, what its

structure will be, what its format of communication between agents will be, but today we will try to answer these questions, yes , i apologize for such a long introduction,

like most entrepreneurs who are present here, when a dream turns into, well, somehow, i didn’t think of this, this came true, yes, that’s when a dream turns into what - a permanent job, but in the end, you can’t live without this work, and i think sometimes you want, well... just like i think, everyone would have already been sent somewhere, that is, but in the end, or somewhere... then leave, probably this happens to entrepreneurs too, i understand, but in the end you still really like what you do, when, when it finally brings

results, and i think that’s how life is the conditions were such over the last 4 years that, well , the results did not come so easily, as if they required a lot of work, but in the end in the end, you... understand that everything is not in vain, that ’s the fact that we are now entering a new cycle, this is in general, well, on the one hand, of course, we understand that again, i think, we are all together, now changes and so on, we define strategies, we understand that it simply won’t happen, on the other hand, so much has already been done, in general there are so many ideas and plans, and despite the fact that it won’t grow on its own, well, but if we continue move the way we moved, then we...

it is clear that the concept is also changing, that is, really smes as a way to solve issues with unemployment with excess workers, in general, it has long been no longer relevant, it is clear that... what will not be relevant in the coming years, the task is to prove to everyone that smes are what really drives and changes the economy, this is ultimately what allows resist inflation, because we communicate with many people, just now i was even flying there with a colleague who is also involved in entrepreneurship, we just got to talking, well, in general, it is clear that if entrepreneurs acted as ours sometimes do. corporations are our government customers, when they simply take price indices, take the cost structure, multiply and say, you need

to index this much, then our inflation now was not not 8%, and i think there has long been double-digit and beyond, but when entrepreneurs take it up, they find ways to work with costs, how to reduce these costs, how to change logistics there, how to change approaches, how to change products, to move into new niches, and thanks to this we... in general, at the rate of economic development , with those restrictions that exist, well, in general , fairly good growth rates and fairly reasonable macroeconomic indicators, this is the task, the task is this, the role of entrepreneurship, so that it is obvious to everyone and so that in the next cycle we take everything that has helped us over the last 4 years , in fact, such things are private property, they are entrepreneurial and... initiative is, well, let’s say, not an abuse of price regulation, yes, we

sometimes carefully included some things, but very carefully, without distorting the market, market essence, this bet on entrepreneurial initiative, it is very important for us that it be taken into the future, moreover, we understand that all technological breakthroughs, all those new industry things that have arisen, they did not arise in the bosom of the public sector, our telecom. ours, i don’t know, there is the development of cities and real estate, yes, all this was not done by state corporations, it was all done, everything was done by entrepreneurs in a competitive environment and so on, in general , it would be nice for us to remember this more often, talk more often, especially when we we determine the cost structure, distribute some resources there, so that at least there is respect, because understanding of respect is followed by legislative initiatives and protection. a different attitude, that’s it, i’m afraid, i’m overdoing it, because there are so many, so many speakers,

the main thing i must say, it was like, if the bank has only banking services, without vouchers, food delivery, tickets, someone will say, but how they dare, like this. uralsip bank - nothing extra. as i already said, and as you also noted, we are in a new political cycle, new guidelines, new national goals, structural transformation. still, this is the role the government assigns to small medium-sized businesses in this new economy that we are striving for. well, i’ve already answered in general, although of course, i would be lying if

i said that there is such unanimity in the government, anyway, one way or another we are promoting two concepts, one concept is the concept of large projects of large government orders, this a completely natural concept, because if you need rhythmic large deliveries of aircraft, you have to organize the entire industry for this, then it is clear that at the end there is a government order and production is developed for this and this. factories, components, long-term orders and so on, but in principle, if all this is done correctly, then at the end there will still be small enterprises that will do it much more efficiently, if we organize it all correctly, at least a significant part will there, on the other hand, we understand when we need technology, innovation in such a changing world, but for now we are forming an order, while we we describe what we need, but for now we will put it all on paper, budget it, give orders to state corporations, state corporations will carry it out, but even so...

i don’t know, be it artificial intelligence, be it technology, when we need systems of approach to business, business support, investing in teams, when we should open the market for them, when we should help them, what the market will be, what the offer will be, entrepreneurs must determine for themselves. for that, well, our image is an entrepreneur, we don’t care when we’re talking about a small-medium business, well, it’s like there’s a little bit of that in my head, but the priority is something like twenty years ago, and shops and hairdressers. well, that is, such a fairly simple, understandable business, but small businesses have become very complicated, especially over the last ten years, we see this, we are now forming, together with our colleagues, a register of small technology companies, well, now there are 2,300 companies, in fact we we expect that there will be about 7-8 different teams, they are actively being formed, in entrepreneurship goes to young people, they go into

technological entrepreneurship, and this actually does not cancel out everything else, and shops and... that the role of small, small-medium entrepreneurship will be key, we need supply-side economics, but we proceed from the fact that we will resolve the issue that , i think, oddly enough, these tax changes will help us, although they are not simple, this is, of course, a seamless system for the growth of small-medium businesses, because in recent years we have been struggling with the fact that, well, the status of smes has become

such some kind of limiter for development, because it was somehow possible to go beyond this perimeter. it was difficult and it was very economically noticeable, now i think that this threshold will be lowered, so our task, of course, is for small companies to grow, well, actually go to ipo companies, to the stock exchange, capitalization grows, and so on, and we see that in principle we are following this path, this is not some kind of chimera, which means it is not some kind of far-reaching foresight, this is what we already have, we just need from this road, it’s still a path, but making a normal highway is the main task. at what stage has the draft law on smes been discussed for quite some time now? if i understand correctly, you were just talking about it, for more than a year now, well, that is, there has been some progress there, well, no more than a year, it seems like the idea is being discussed, in general we introduced this concept of smes to the agenda and as a priority, now we have a bill in our government, i think in the near future it will come out of the government, go to the duma, well, they are waiting for it in the duma,

there is support, i think that this year we will formalize this entire system and receive just additional support for these... current companies, we still have to discuss there and argue on the criteria, because they will not automatically be at the level of a government act defined, but in general, according to current criteria, we now see about a thousand companies that are growing, that are in the supply economy, that have now already crossed this threshold and can count on support, but of course the task is for there to be more of them, okay, thank you, well, in conclusion, probably summing up your speech more accurately, if you... allow me, i’ll also remind those who follow economic news, a new world bank rating was recently released, and there the russian economy has risen from fifth place to fourth, that is, in principle, this was just the president’s order for national goals, well, probably the president’s orders have never been carried out so quickly, maxim gennadievich, these are our

colleagues, but they just resigned themselves to seeing your re-affirmation, or maybe on the contrary they... it’s clear to joke that statistics are statistics, so international statistics are also statistics squared, all these international comparisons are necessary, well, we are guided by them internally, but it is clear that there is a reason to discuss something there, so well, in general , this is not a reason not to relax, not to consider that the national project is not needed, for us , the main thing for us is that no one says that your task...

for this session they surveyed businesses, in fact there are a lot of problems, yes , barriers that hinder the development of small medium business, but firstly, everything here, of course , wouldn’t fit on the screen, and, secondly, well , it’s probably difficult, like this, to somehow differentiate them completely, so we’ve combined many barriers, so i’ll ask the audience scan the qr codes and select three. yes, probably, the barrier that most of all restrains your growth, that is, this is kind of the task, help alexander sergeevich maxim gennadievich decide on

priority problems, so while the hall is voting, alexander sergeevich, a question for you , i’ll probably start too from a personal question, here maxim gennadievich wanted to become a minister, so he became a minister, now you are the president. it’s time for russia to serve its third term, if i’m not mistaken.

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will find housing for themselves at domklik. the executive and legislative branches are beginning to work to achieve these stated programs, so colleagues, it is very important now to correctly formulate national projects, federal projects, not to miss out on the achievements that have been achieved in small businesses, because now they are not only discussing how many federal projects there will be in the national project competitive and efficient economy

are distributed. money, and small businesses have nothing to blush about, the effectiveness of investing in small businesses is a multiple of budget costs , we only added to the fiscal system, small businesses pay one and a half trillion more a year than they paid in 1918, and of course, it was invested, probably tatyana aleksandrovna ilyushnikova is present here, she will tell you her opinion, but it was... probably 600 billion were invested during this time, somewhere around that, probably, that’s why we are showing very high efficiency, so it is important for all of us too, we are far from indifferent to how small business will develop further, i would like to say separately, to draw special attention to the fact that the minister of economy, maxim reshetnikov, is present here now, this is also an indicator of attention to small business ,

but... if anyone hasn’t noticed, yes, but he also pays a lot of attention, maybe this is just evidence of the interest of small businesses in the minister of economy, well, you see, the hall, the hall is full, there is a broadcast, what’s also important is, how much attention the ministry of economy pays to supporting investments, because for example, there are banks here, only 11% of investments come from loans, this is an average figure, and... the vast majority of investments are made at the expense of income, as profitable as a small business is, so will it be the amount of investment, in addition, one of the national goals is to double the stock market, because well, you remember, we are in st. petersburg, colleagues, who launched the icon, railways, who launched it, it was all joint-stock companies, we simply forgot how to raise money through

funds. markets, but this is international practice, including russian, so we need to very carefully reconsider the sources of investment, measures to support investments, in general, there are very interesting six months ahead, which we must discuss in discussions - in fact, jointly create a new national project, within it new federal projects, this will greatly determine how quickly... and efficiently we will grow in the next 6 years, thank you for your attention, thank you, well, in principle, the results have already stabilized, in part, of course, they even largely confirm what you are talking about, so we have a shortage of personnel that prevails, but loan rates in second place are exactly what what did you say, the tenth point -