Russia. Entrepreneur's Day 2013

Russian entrepreneurship has its own special, long-suffering history, it remembers both the dawn and the periods of total oblivion. At the moment, we are on a long path of development from the "cave foundations" of the 80s, the "hot revolutionary time" of the 1990s to the two thousandth years marking the development of the business sector in a more civilized direction. Recently, Russian businessmen have got their professional holiday - it's Entrepreneur's Day, which is celebrated annually on May 26. Despite the relative progress that still occurred after the state economy of Soviet Russia was eliminated, compared to Western entrepreneurs (Europe and the USA), our businessmen are like pioneers, whose fate is constantly tested for strength of mind.

If we transform the development of Russian entrepreneurship into figures, we will get the following: for today only 4% work in the sphere of production, 3% of entrepreneurs are engaged in financial activities, and trade accounts for the lion's share of 93%. Of course, buying and reselling is much easier than doing research, innovation, technology development, but is this kind of activity a true business? The sphere of trade, rather, can be called the word "business", while entrepreneurship is something more creative, art, if you can say so. But the art is not just to make money, but to be an innovator, to do something better than everyone, by writing your name into history. How to name the activities that are conducted by Russian businessmen is a controversial issue. But such a holiday as the Day of the Entrepreneur in Russia already exists.

Why are Russian citizens so diligently walking along the beaten path, not wanting to discover their own path to freedom, is unknown. Perhaps, the fault is the difficulties that arise in the way of business development. According to numerous sociological and journalist polls among entrepreneurs, one in six of them has problems with the development of their company due to open pressure from local authorities. Numerous associations and unions of entrepreneurs, gathering together not only on Entrepreneur's Day, allow people to help each other, provide information and legal support and, actively communicating with each other, develop economic ties.

In 2013, the Week of Russian Business is timed to a holiday such as the Day of the Entrepreneur. The planned grandiose events were held in no less significant places. For example, a roundtable discussion on resolving issues in the field of intellectual property in Russia, held on April 10, 2013, was held in one of the auditoriums of the State Duma building; Prospects for the development of entrepreneurship among young people were discussed in the building of the Moscow Region Government. Most of the planned events can be spoken in the past tense, all meetings were equally informative and productive. However, the best is yet to come, and this is not the Day of the Russian Entrepreneur. We are talking about various exhibitions, forums and roundtables. The Week of Russian Business will end on May 26 on Entrepreneur's Day, which will be celebrated on a special scale.

Such wide and close cooperation with the authorities nevertheless gives hope that in our country ideal conditions for the development of entrepreneurship will be created, which will not be limited to the sphere of trade, and Russia will finally show the whole world the greatness of its people.