Малое и среднее предпринимательство: анализ состояния в 2015 и 2022 годах

During last 10 years there are several recessions in Russian economy. The biggest of them were in 2015, 2020 and 2022. GDP and real disposable incomes of the population decreased. Russian SME’s segment has low share in GDP comparing it to most of the developed countries and government’s aims. So, it is important to understand the current condition of SME and the ways of its development. There are two steps in this study: 1) the analysis of national and global databases and 2) the analysis of the analytical reports considering the Russian SME segment. Russian SME had bad results and mood of businessmen was negative in 2015. But the count of enterprises was growing during last ten years. And in 2022 during political pressure and hard economic sanctions small and middle business continues to develop, to change technology of production processes and to invest in innovation and the mood of business became more positive. There were different types of government support to SME and lots of them had positive influence. As result Russian SME segment is a perspective resource of economic growth.