Development of the russian sphere of small, medium-sized enterprises and self-employed and its state support at the federal and regional levels in emergency conditions

Support for small, medium-sized enterprises and self-employed is an essential tool of the state policy of countering crisis phenomena, ensuring socio-economic development. The article discusses the results of the impact of the accelerated expansion of the system of state support for small, medium-sized enterprises and self-employed in Russia in recent years under emergency conditions on the dynamics of the development of their constituent groups: small, medium, individual entrepreneurship, as well as the self-employed. The latter are officially, by law - not entrepreneurs. But they, their numbers, are usually considered in official Russian documents, including statistical materials, as a common whole with small and medium-sized enterprises. The object of the study is both these groups (small and medium-sized enterprises plus self-employed) and the system of their support in its current form. The accelerated growth of employment in the group of small and medium entrepreneurship, in the group of self-employed people observed in our country is due to significant improvements in the system of their state support. The breakthrough in the formation and expansion of this system of support is due to the increased attention of the state to these spheres as effective means of counteracting crisis processes, damping economic and social failures. This increased attention is due to the extremely difficult situation in the economy of the country and its regions. It is noteworthy that the system of state support for small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as the self-employed, takes into account the specifics of each of the country's regional economies.