The agenda: the results of the working visit to Turkmenistan, the development of small and medium-sized businesses, establishing educational and production clusters within the framework of the Professional Training national project.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks
Alexander Novak’s report on the development of small and medium-sized businesses
Dmitry Chernyshenko’s report on establishing educational and production clusters within the framework of the Professional Training national project
Meeting on current issues with deputy prime ministers
Meeting on current issues with deputy prime ministers
Alexander Novak at a meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers on current issues
Meeting on current issues with deputy prime ministers
Excerpts from the transcript:
Mikhail Mishustin: Good morning, colleagues.
Last week, we paid a working visit to Turkmenistan. We held substantive talks with the leadership of Turkmenistan, reviewed the implementation of joint projects in great detail and charted long-term measures for expanding bilateral economic and investment ties. We took part in a meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Independent States which will mark its 35th anniversary later this year.
As the President has noted, the CIS has asserted itself during this period an influential regional integration association. We were able to establish a common market and a common cultural and humanitarian space. Our colleagues, heads of government, and we discussed issues of strengthening cooperation in trade, in the field of culture, education and other spheres.
We approved a number of significant documents, including a concept for the digital transformation of our countries’ mining and metallurgical sectors, a concept for merging the main transport arteries passing via the territory of CIS member states. We will continue active and well-coordinated work to integrate modern information technologies into the industry and to make production facilities more cost-effective. It is necessary to expedite the creation of an integrated CIS transport system for facilitating rapid and safe traffic; this can be accomplished by upgrading infrastructure solutions, developing logistics and multi-modal routes.
Colleagues, I would like to ask you to monitor the fulfilment of specific agreements (that have been reached, and which are backed by the relevant documents) within your remit.
I would now like to remind you about an important date. Our meeting is taking place ahead of Russian Entrepreneurship Day which was instituted after the President approved a law on the development of small and medium-sized businesses almost two decades ago. You see, this sector is a key driver of multiple improvements that the people need, in the regions, in the sphere of services and creative industries. These sectors give rise to promising breakthrough ideas that later become a foundation for technological innovations.
To assist it, the Government has suggested multiple measures. We are implementing a specialised federal project, and we stipulate incentives for the industry, tourism and the information technologies sector. We fine-tune supporting tools using feedback. By May 2026, the number of small and medium-sized businesses reached almost seven million, an all-time high in the past ten years, when we started keeping their list.
Mr Alexander Novak, please tell us how small and medium-sized businesses are developing.
More to be posted soon.
