correspondent, anton malyuta, talked about this with the first deputy chairman of the board of the development bank roman brodovood afternoon, how did the support of small medium-sized businesses by the development bank develop in the first half of the year? to a sufficient extent? results, because we see that the basis of enterprises, small enterprises that receive support, is primarily the real sector. 85% of recipients of such funds are enterprises from the industrial and agricultural sectors, that is, those that generate products that are tradable, those that provide significant added value and those that largely forms the gross showed. development of the country, what is especially noteworthy is the fact that the development bank’s funds are allocated for investment purposes, these are not current activities, these are not issues of refinancing old debts, these are long-term projects that in the future will create additional factors for the competitiveness of both these enterprises and the economy in general, why is it important to support small medium-sized businesses today and what benefits does this bri