from the world market, and we will not first shoot ourselves in the foot, that is, seek some kind of restrictions for our business and for friendly business in other countries, moreover , there is a golden billion, yes, uniting western countries, but there are 6 billion. this golden billion who wants to work with russia can work with russia, you just need to refocus, including small businesses to work with those who want to work with us, it will be easy to do this. especially considering the fact that so many supply chains. anyway were tied back and now they need to be completely reconfigured. and if maybe for large companies i still have more resources, then for small businesses. it's much more sensitive. you're right here, huh? uh, 20 years, we arranged the flow to the west in many respects, and the european union is the largest partner in terms of trade. in our country, with a turnover, in my opinion, of 250

billion euros a year, now, including small businesses, they must completely reformat in many ways, especially their export activities. here is an example i will give was in pskov in novgorod regions. in the same place, entire wood processing plants were built, which supplied wood and still supply short-arms to western markets. here are the consumer high prices since july 15th. this means that partners are introducing a ban on the import of processed wood, contrary to all wto rules. what should these companies do? and they say that let's reconfigure government support methods, for example, we want to get a much larger logistics subsidy. why because to deliver? sorry, to turkey or iran, china is much more expensive and if the same subsidy that they had, let's say , was before logistics, they do not fit into the

price. and we are just talking about the fact that now we need to reconsider, reload national projects and state programs are largely for the new corridors of the south, the east, if we are talking about exports , imports, and, if we talk about small medium-sized businesses, then, of course, reconsider first of all sectoral regulators, for example, the ministry of economic development, which means the ministry of industry to the ministry of agriculture, they have an understanding and programs for development of smes, but this is not the case, for example, the ministry of energy, the ministry of health means the ministry of communications there, the ministry of transport. but from our point of view, the sectoral ministries should now also turn on. in the work on the dynamic development of small business, because now we are talking about the fact that the share of small business in the economy for

several years has been somewhere between 24-20.7. in the country's gross domestic product. it could be more strategy written 40% of the gross product should be, but not written. when you already have the indicators of the national project on small business in our upper level completed over several years. e to e means control points. already last year, 25.5 million russians work in small businesses together with the self-employed. and we had to achieve this, there, by the thirtieth year, therefore, we need to set more ambitious goals. within the framework of the national project within the framework of state programs for small businesses, now is just the time, and many proposals and developments for small businesses to hear and implement, this is how we worked together with the government for these 3 months, when unprecedented anti-sanction package e-e proposals were immediately submitted to the state duma

to the federation council, and deferrals on e, which means insurance premiums on taxes, a decrease in customs duties, a decrease in the number of inspections at times, now we need to think about a development program for smes, more precisely, we have projects for smes to make it so that, uh, small business develops faster than in the average economy, it’s no longer an urgent decision to act proactively, and that’s exactly what i wanted to ask about something else, but now they listed some of the support measures that were taken in recent months. in particular. what kind of feedback? do you have anything to say? entrepreneurs themselves, which of these is the most in demand and maybe they still want to see, well, the support of russia, along with e, promsvyazbank. we have, uh, such a tool. we, uh, sort it out, there are russian small-medium businesses. we survey entrepreneurs every month. and of course, first of all, everyone was worried about this

opportunity then. ah, re- uh, credit holidays, getting loans at more or less reasonable rates, and it was an instant business. i got the opportunity to restructure loans and a trillion rubles was allocated for loans to supply 15-13.5% there, and besides, of course. e, when e business was given the opportunity to pay insurance premiums for one and a half trillion rubles later for half a year, and this, of course, saved one and a half trillion e of working capital for small businesses. in short, today yes, vat refund within 8 days to exporters. this is also plus customs duties have been reduced by a trillion rubles. uh, this is for importers for uh, very important. and for our consumers too we need to continue working at this pace, not in terms of urgent measures to restore the

solvency of enterprises, but we are worried. what questions for example, and about the effective demand fell strongly, but in april, but the decision of the government. e, on behalf of the president, a significant part has already been adopted. well, for example, and the salaries of state employees have been increased, and benefits for large families have been increased. additional money is paid out, and we see that the market has begun to revive consumer, but in terms of investment demand. we see it growing the wave is not payments, but from the state. companies for example, yes, and large businesses, but here , uh, business says that it has become much worse and more difficult to pay off small businesses, although the government, on the contrary, has adopted legal acts to pay in 7 days, advances are made there, uh, 50 even 90% for state purchases, that is, investment, and purchases must, of

course, not be stopped. you can't have a blood clot there. uh, for example, there was a meeting on the road industry with the president and a half trillion additional money was allocated for the construction of roads. here are investment projects, in no case is it impossible. now for some reason. ah, stop for example, but they didn’t stop the northern latitudinal railway on the russian railway, although there were at first, but intentions to stop it. a. this is hundreds of billions of rubles of an order, because yes, because such projects are, in fact, drivers for a huge number of other smaller ones. thank you very much alexander, i will remind you what we said about the import of independence with the head of the public organization the support of russia, an organization that unites the country's small and medium-sized businesses alexander kalinin vera anastasia thank you and your guest we'll be back to you today let's continue. the

president of kazakhstan, kassym jamar, will also speak at the st. petersburg forum. tokayev from kazakhstan, one of the largest and most representative delegations at the event on the eve of the forum, gave an interview to our channel from the january riots in the country about the help of the csto forces and about where he was in at that time, the main attention in the conversation was paid to the vector of kazakhstan's political development, according to tokaev, the recent referendum on changes to the country's constitution will lead to a civilized presidential form of government. note initially. i thought that the formula at the beginning of economics, and then politics, as it were, had exhausted its resource. although it was very useful at the initial stage in the early nineties. i realized that we need to carry out political transformations. because it should have been released. uh, civil the activity of people, and it was a very big request

from the society. i began political reforms, in fact, back in the nineteenth year. we started drafting a law on peaceful assemblies, then uh, a 30% quota for women was introduced, parliamentary reform began, and so on. what about the referendum? it's like a continuation of the company that i started with the aim of transforming the political setting. eh, in kazakhstan indeed. we must move away from the super presidential system, the so-called super-presidential system. she lived up to her mission. these kazakhstan in the late nineties at the beginning of the 2000s made a very big leap forward in its development, but life does not stand still. we need reforms we need reforms. turn to the east and closer interaction with the closest trading partners, the main direction of the transformation of international cooperation was named by the minister of economic

development of russia maxim reshetnikov, my colleague yulia makarova talked to him hello maxim gennadievich thank you very much for taking the time to meet before the st. petersburg forum. please tell us, the st. petersburg international economic forum starts tomorrow, given the sanctions pressure that russia has found itself under . do you think our country is ready to work with foreign partners now? russia remains a reliable partner and trade and investment partner for all countries who works here and for all foreign companies and the current situation we use in order to strengthen our interacting with the weird ones first. these are our partners in the eurasian economic, and the union and partners from the cis are those who sympathize and are observers in this union, and we use the current situation in order to deepen our integration, build a new trade logistics chain, switch to settlements in

national currencies, make it easier and trust let's just say a more reliable translation system. here. well, decide here. where and most importantly to deepen, and industrial cooperation in production so that we mutually create products. this is one direction, the second direction is our interaction with the countries of the asia-pacific region, which are in great demand. now for the very products that our western partners are refusing - oil and oil products, mineral fertilizers and other areas. yes , definitely food. on the one hand, they are consumed a lot, and on the other hand , they have something to offer us in this engineering production. and also food fruits vegetables. that's why there is great potential for increasing trade turnover. this is how we use this potential. we are now in active contacts and in active consultations, but again, there are also issues that require time to rebuild. this is primarily

logistics. but in general, we have a very good level of interaction of trust with colleagues, and we meet constantly. we communicate, we move, that’s why we are here, and such intensive work is also going on. well, the third in the direction is the islamic countries of the islamic world, which has been working with russia for a long time trusts russia actively invests in russia but also russia, accordingly builds similar relations with these countries. this and the trade of this investment. it's uh, cultural tourist exchange. that is why we are working in all these areas, and we are the participants, and at the st. petersburg forum and at the current one, it just confirms these areas of interaction, we continue to develop, we are always ready to openly look at existing partners, and we are always ready to meet new companies. and this is the situation that is happening now. well, including you. you know, some companies are leaving the russian market, but no less, and no less interest from the side of the

company is already from these strange ones from the asian islamic ocean region to our colleagues who see that niches. and we are ready to come in, so there is something to talk about. in general, we have something to lure. and most importantly, we have gone through this rather difficult period. yes, we have protected the property rights of all companies from friendly unfriendly countries. we remained within the law, we did not take a single action that would violated these property rights, regardless of how the governments of, let's say, those countries where the companies came to us from, acted. we have provided them with support in the same way that we have provided and will continue to provide russian companies. but of course, at the same time, it is very important for us that companies confirm their development plans. well, those companies that didn’t integrate, so to speak, could not withstand, and the pressure of their governments left this promising russian market, but no, in the vast majority of cases they did correctly.