[000:00:00;00] to experience a food shortage in general in january april, our foreign trade is in positive territory by $22.6 billion, this is for january april, well, in fact, a little more than the first quarter, while, for the whole of 2022, the current account surplus amounted to 233 billion rubles. what i want to emphasize is that this resource should work more actively for the development of the russian economy, including imports, advanced equipment, technology, components and materials. i ask the governments and the bank of russia to submit specific proposals, how, using the funds coming into our the country from high exports to stimulate investments to expand investment of funds the largest systemically important projects in the infrastructure of logistics in territorial development and so on in projects that

will increase the capabilities of domestic business across the widest range to increase its competitiveness, including in global markets, of course, in these markets. russia has not only partners and friends, but also ill-wishers, frankly speaking, they are accustomed to making super profits from their dominance and monopoly. including a political monopoly and they simply do not want other countries of the world to have an alternative to their planes, ships, medicines, banking systems, technologies and other goods and services, but uh, such market participants do not need competitors, so they put spokes in the wheels, try to restrain new development centers, as they say now, are trying to cancel them. however, such attempts only lead to the fact that western countries cancel

their own. reputation, and this is worth a lot, in my opinion, sometimes some figures forget russia, in turn, has been and will be involved in the world economy. we have already drastically simplified the regulation of foreign trade, we have significantly reduced the penalties for violation of currency laws and , i would like to draw your attention, have completely removed them in case of external unfriendly actions. by the way, this moratorium will be extended to the next year 2024. what else at a recent meeting with representatives of the public e, business association delovaya rossiya, colleagues directly raised the issue of an amnesty in the foreign exchange sector, i will say frankly a similar approach, we we don't use it often. but now, when the violation of obligations by western counterparties has become a common practice. i consider it right to meet business halfway on such

an acute issue, namely, i propose to declare an amnesty for business, a forced currency violation committed during the moratorium. and completely close this issue, so that later there would be no reason to hold the business accountable. what is called hindsight, we further introduced accelerated vat refunds on exports. now it's 8 days. instead of 3 months with foreign partners, we are preparing new mechanisms for cross-border settlements. among other things, we will simplify the opening of a bank account in russia for foreign companies. in this case, personal presence will not even be required, of course, subject to all the requirements of the so-called laundering legislation, i will note. so there is a noticeable progress in the use of national currencies. this is a separate

topic in the external road. today, about 90% of settlements with foreign countries of the eurasian economic union are made in rubles. more than 80% of settlements with china are in rubles. and yuan are actively developing trade in national. we have a whole range of tools to support foreign economic activity in foreign currencies from other countries, priority is given to our closest neighbors, as well as countries, and in all sectors in industry, agriculture in others , these tools will work, calculated in the long term, we will extend it until 2030. at the same time, it is necessary to constantly build up tools to improve the tool for supporting exporters and make them more convenient for business. of course, it is now being actively released. let them go to friendly, but still new

markets for themselves with their own specifics. this, of course, the state should take into account and whether it will do it, including the need for specific decisions on the development of insurance for export deliveries and on the use of invoicing, which will also support our manufacturers and suppliers, additional guarantees for their transactions by foreign buyers and, of course, we need to promote the domestic products with the help of e- commerce platforms, their audience, the client base is steadily growing, as in our country such a all over the world. this means that even a small business can find a buyer. we have work to do here. we are not leaders here. but by the way, yes, and we are not trailing behind, but the prospect is very good, very good. i ask governments to launch as soon as possible a line of tools to support or support e-commerce, as well as constantly analyze their effectiveness , primarily for small and medium-sized businesses, in order to work together with business associations to increase it. i will add that we

have examples of our own successful electronic sites. we need to help them with market access to large markets. such as the market of china and india in the market of our neighbors such as turkish and other countries. moreover , it is mutually beneficial here and our products will become more accessible to foreign markets and russian buyers will receive a wider choice of goods. dear friends and colleagues, in the face of unprecedented challenges, russia has not retreated from its principles of economic development. i have already started with this common efforts of entrepreneurs of large medium-sized small companies reactive participation of the authorities. we have maintained the stability of our economy. for today. it is absolutely obvious what is called a medical fact. a-and positions as the most important participant in the global market are also preserved, we ensured the stable operation of entire sectors of the real

sector of labor collectives, many enterprises, and so on , supported the well-being of millions of russian families, the key strategic systemic task both today and in the future is not simply to compensate for the decline gdp or uh, replace foreign companies that rid us of their presence in our market, and certainly not to wait out supposedly temporary fluctuations in the global economy. i have already said dear friends. i want to repeat once again the changes in the world. in all its spheres they are radically deep and irreversible. that's what's important under these conditions, it is necessary to move only forward. and this means that we need a proactive economic policy that can be built and implemented in close conjunction with representatives of the business community with our entrepreneurs, basically. we are talking

about the transition to a qualitatively new level of development of a sovereign economy, which not only responds to market conditions and takes into account demand, but this demand itself is formed by such an economy. such an economy , often called a supply-side economy , involves a large-scale build-up of productive forces and the service sector , a widespread strengthening of the infrastructure infrastructure network. the development of advanced technologies, the creation of new modern industrial facilities and entire industries, in including in those areas where we have not yet shown ourselves properly. well the possibilities for this are the scientific possibilities of the creative potential. we, of course, have what is important for the implementation of such a model of the supply economy model and what tasks we

need to solve now and in the near future in the near future. today i already spoke about the record low unemployment in russia, which we can certainly rightly be proud of. however , this achievement has a downside . company representatives in this room, of course, they understand. what i'm talking about is the difficulties associated with the selection of employees with a shortage of personnel, so the first direction of development of the supply-side economy in the current conditions is, of course, uh, employment and improvement of the structure are busy. we have huge reserves here. you need to use them. and to do this , retraining personnel increases the economic activity of citizens so that people can realize themselves in new growing promising sectors in every city , village and region. uh, it should be possible find a job i pay attention, the government

to the situation in regions with high unemployment. and here, despite the fact that in the country as a whole it is at a historical minimum, it is still in certain regions. she remains high. here it is important to give more opportunities to people to get a new one on purpose. including in the field of information technology or in other technical areas of e-competence for work in the format of remote employment, it is necessary to increase this area of ​​work next year with federal support in regions with limited budgetary resources , at least ten such projects should be launched, a good example of the creation of such educational spaces is the school, 21, organized by the savings. i cannot but welcome a program of this kind. further, it is necessary to increase the focus of higher and secondary specialized educational institutions on the result,

that is, on the successful employment of graduates. in this regard, i think it is right to do two things. well, at least. the first was established for educational institutions of special key performance indicators. chief among them is the quality of employment of graduates. on the basis of this approach, i propose to form ratings of educational institutions of vocational education and prepare a second annual five-year forecast of the need for personnel at the level of the entire economy in order to maximally flexibly take into account the changing trends, new demands of the labor market, and, of course, our priorities in the development of the sector of the economy. separately, i ask the governments to prepare a proposal for the development of such an instrument as a student agreement; its meaning is that the employer, at his own expense, sends the employee to learn to improve his qualifications, and the employee, in turn, receives a guarantee of employment in a more qualified

workplace. naturally. here, uh, it is necessary to create incentives for businesses to use such a mechanism, including with the help of state support. now i will not go into details, but we understand that qualitative changes in the labor market imply an increase in wages. what i am going to say now will probably sound strange, but nevertheless, nevertheless i am sure that this is true , but i want to talk about this separately now, i want to talk separately about such an important indicator as the minimum wage, the minimum wage, we continue to index it ahead of time, and at a pace to increase the gap between the minimum wage and the minimum wage. here the subsistence minimum from january 1, 1923 was increased by six and three per cent to 16,000,242 rubles. per month from january 1, 2024. let's

do another indexation immediately at 18.5%. here, from january 1, 23, there were six and three tenths of indexation, and from january 1, twenty the fourth will be 18.5, which will be much higher than the rate of inflation and wage growth in the country. in general, the total increase in the minimum wage will have a positive impact on the incomes of almost 5 million people, to be more precise 4.8 million, and by 2030 it should increase in e-nominal terms, at least twice . what i would like to add here, what i consider important to add here, we are expanding the world and social support for citizens and, above all, families with children. many of such payments depend on whether

the person works or not. these payments are tied to the income of the family to the income of a particular person. if such income increases even slightly, then social payments are stopped or significantly reduced. this means incentives to look for a new job , higher wages for a person. no. we must change this situation , work should be profitable on state support, it should serve as an additional income to the salary, and not its replacement. but i think that you you understand, dear colleagues, in conditions of such low unemployment, this is an incentive for people to go to work and, of course, you need to look for such a body of perfection from them, so i propose a child allowance, but for a year and a half, as well as uniform child allowances to pay for the entire period of time for which they are appointed regardless of whether

the income of the family has increased or not? i also propose to support citizens who care for children with disabilities. today. they are also entitled to benefits. only if not they do not have any other source of income, even if they want to earn extra money. you can’t do this, then you will lose the allowance and you need to unconditionally remove these restrictions, namely, keep the care allowance, with part-time employment of such citizens. and so that there are no discrepancies here, it is necessary to fix the concept of part-time employment in the law. i ask the parliament to adopt the relevant norms as soon as possible. the second direction in the development of the supply-side economy is the expansion of entrepreneurial activity in small and medium-sized businesses in russia.

28 million people first 22 years doubled the number of self-employed them. now we have, uh, seven and six tenths of a million to support people who want to do business take their first steps here. in this, including uh, within the framework of the social contract. today he envisages the launch of his own subsidiary farming business. i think it is right if the participant of the social contract will undergo additional training in entrepreneurial skills on the basis of the centers. my. business, of course, at the expense of states. at one of the previous meetings of our forum, i proposed to launch a zone overnight mechanism for lending to small medium-sized businesses, we are talking about the guarantees of the sme corporation , those cases x when an entrepreneur does not have enough collateral to obtain loans today this mechanism operates in all regions with its help more than 39,000 loans were issued for

more than 350 billion rubles. well, i must say that this mechanism works well. here, look at the twenty-second year compared to the twentieth number of loans since guarantee for manufacturing industries increased seven times. and for entrepreneurs in the field of it technology, 46 times. of course, the demand. it is even higher for such an instrument, especially in industries such as tourism and information technology, so i propose to increase this resource to extend the mechanism of umbrella guarantees until 2030 and ask the government. determine the target limits for increasing the volume of such lending anton georgievich, i do not name these target limits. i ask them to work to approve, but this a real tool for the development of the economy

as a whole so i also consider it necessary to expand the scope of this measure to include here. the so-called mplus category. these are medium-sized enterprises that, despite certain difficulties , have grown in recent years and, according to formal criteria such as employment, revenue can no longer apply for state support, but are in an important stage of growth and need resources. for such companies, special support measures are needed. i ask you to work them out by the end of this year and even now the companies that grow out of the status of small and medium-sized lose their rights to preferential taxation regimes , the tax burden on them at the moment increases , and so on, until they issue benefits as part of the support of already large businesses , a situation arises. and for this room. i will not say anything new for this audience. everyone

understands perfectly. we are talking about a situation where there is little incentive to grow to move to another weight category. it is simply unprofitable, so the company is trying to stay in the small business sector in the sector with various tricks. smes, including resorting to business fragmentation. uh, in order to keep those benefits, the irs. everyone sees this beautiful, but i don’t know, mr. president, as in algeria, but this has been happening here for many years. well, i think that uh, well, people everywhere are the same in this sense and will always find it. uh, a way out of the situation that the state draws, if there are real restrictions on growth. here uh hmm what i said is real our life today in this sense in this sense there is no sense uh someone the task is to support development

, remove barriers that hinder business, gain strength, expand, create new jobs and help create conditions for a smooth and not burdensome transition to another category of business. i ask the government early next year to submit proposals on this subject, including the launch of a preferential transitional tax regime, yes. another important measure to support entrepreneurship concerns the limitation of inspections and other control measures. let me remind you that last year we established a moratorium on scheduled inspections of all russian businesses, then extended it to the current year 2023, and for entrepreneurs whose activities are not associated with high risks of harm, the moratorium lasts even longer until 2030 as a result of the past year,

339,000 inspections were carried out throughout the country. this is 20% less than in the covid-19 2020 and almost five times less than in 2019, but this is a good indicator, but there is, but now i will also talk about it. uh, first of all, i think if business not associated with high risks of harm to citizens or the environment, then it should not be at all. check is not scheduled. enough preventive measures. eh, mr. president, as a result of practical work in the economy with business, we come to such a decision, but i apologize for speaking for a long time, but maybe for your country. here, too, you will find something useful

in our life in our practice. next year, let's evaluate, uh, what i'm proposing now, how it will work, of course, i believe that it is enough to confine ourselves to preventive measures next year as well. and then we will continue to work to reduce administrative pressure on entrepreneurs. i also ask you to intensify work on such an instrument as the transformation of the business climate, in fact, this is a systematic project to create a friendly favorable environment for entrepreneurship in all regions of the country. contacts with business associations have already been established here. it is from their submission that changes are made to the normative regulation and it is the business community that evaluates the effectiveness of the accepted world. this year , the roadmaps in the field of industrial construction export corporate management have been updated. in the near

future, to do similar work in urban planning, high-tech business and including the use of artificial intelligence, as well as in tourism and in the field of intellectual property , let me remind you earlier to assess the conditions for doing business in a particular area. we used the world bank ratings. and by the way, we have reached good in this. e results of a healthy grain is a good message that stimulates competition in such a ranking. of course there is no need. it is very important to give up this idea to have objective criteria so that e, what is called from outside to evaluate their work and the progress achieved. therefore, i ask the government for a mission with the business community , the community or business associations. agency for strategic initiatives to develop a domestic model of target conditions for doing business at the national level, necessarily taking into account the best world

experience in order to put this model into practice step by step in the country as a whole and in each separate region. in particular, of course, in the development of the business climate. it is impossible to ignore such sensitive business issues as improving law enforcement practices and criminalization of criminal law. i repeat, it is necessary to ensure a clearer legal regulation of economic life in the country, including eliminating the so-called vague wording in the regulatory framework and reducing the so-called rubber articles to least the case when investigations disrupt the work of the enterprise becomes the reason for the collapse of labor collectives, but we already talk a lot about this. now i will not go into details. i want my colleagues with whom we are discussing this, and the business community, to know that we will not leave this topic and we will definitely work on it. back then, from this rostrum, a number of initiatives in this area were announced.

many of them have already become laws. some of them are still being discussed in the parliamentary government. i understand that it's not easy to find a compromise, nevertheless i beg you , i beg you colleagues, not to drag it out and come to final decisions as soon as possible. she's agreeing today. i would like to draw out a few more proposals based on the results of the meeting with the russian union. industrialists, you are entrepreneurs. i will also make russia talking about the norms of criminal law, which have lost their relevance, or duplicate the code of administrative offenses. so we have not changed for more than 10 years, the thresholds for large and especially large property damage, which is not related to theft, as well as for violation of copyright and related rights, i would like to pay special attention to the latter, since now foreign companies themselves refuse to supply software and other services. i consider it right to raise these thresholds

at least twice and do the same for the economic elements of the uh for the economic elements of the crime, where e does not apply deprivation of liberty. i mean avoidance of disclosure. e on securities legislation and a separate topic. i just said that the number of business inspections has decreased. did, as you noticed a small caveat. now i will tell you what it is about entrepreneurs. they say that now, instead of the control of supervisory authorities , law enforcement began to come, and often there is no violation. they are already here and there, picking something, maybe somewhere. this is true, but it is possible, but in fact, what is happening is the substitution

of the concepts of checks, we say it will not be practice, it turns out that it will only be called differently and other people will come, certainly. this undermines the confidence of business in the reform of the control of the supervisory sphere. it affects the business. i don’t want to emphasize the checks, where they remain, should be carried out only by the relevant departments and i ask the government, together with the general, the prosecutor’s office and the ministry of the interior. in addition, fix this norm in the legislation and strictly monitor its implementation. this is very important, otherwise there is no point in our work. it is necessary to prescribe everything, as he once said, our well-known comedian needs to work out more carefully like this

the so-called legal technique, so that every word is understandable further, the business climate in russia, both for a beginner and for a mature business, must be globally competitive, as he said in a message to the federal assembly, business, key industries and sectors of the management structure of our largest system-forming enterprises should work in russian jurisdiction. yes, of course, every businessman has an unshakable right to dispose of profit and property at his own discretion. for this, any business and starts is the main motive. the basis of entrepreneurial activity. it's clear. there can be no doubts here, but the situation when funds are earned in russia and then deposited in foreign accounts is obvious. and the risks that are often unacceptable not only for the state and for russian business itself, many of our businessmen, many of our businessmen , have seen this through their own example. when they saw it

, they were surprised to find that both accounts and assets were frozen in the west. well, in fact , as we have said many times, well, in the head no one had ever experienced before that this is possible, in violation of all the norms of their own and international legislation, robbery, because they were closed and taken away and they don’t even explain. why they don’t even want to talk is surprisingly simple. some kind of medieval, but our people and ours have a well-aimed saying, where they were born, they came in handy there, so i have said many times, i appeal to our business community, we must focus, of course, on investing money. then they will be here and more reliable, yes, and profit. eh, there will be more. here i have no doubts. they will actively use these funds in the country in the economy in the social sphere for our citizens, and not only

will all this bring considerable benefits to the country and reliability is higher today, quite a lot of domestic assets are registered in foreign companies by their owners. in fact, russian citizens want to return to russian jurisdiction for them, we have launched two special administrative regions in the primorsky territory and in the kaliningrad region. here the company can protect its assets maintain the usual system of corporate governance, as well as a number of tax preferences, i know that not everyone who would like to use this opportunity, and the reason for this are various different reasons, someone simply did not have time or could not get legal and accounting services abroad. however, there are also direct cases. mm reluctance on the part of foreign partners to give out all this information and documents. there is no other way to call it sabotage. uh, so, uh,