Moscow doesn’t care about small businesses in Crimea and Sevastopol
Moscow - Kyiv, March 2 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Business in Crimea suffered colossal losses, but Russian officials not only did not want to involve businessmen in developing an anti-crisis plan for the peninsula - they refuse to even discuss the problems of small businesses. This is reported by RBC.
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Throughout 2014, business activity in Crimea decreased, economic growth slowed down, which created threats to the development of the real sector of the economy and macroeconomic stability in the medium term, as listed in the plan. Industrial production on the peninsula last year decreased by 9,9%, retail trade turnover decreased by 7,6%. Construction volumes fell by more than half (44,5% of the 2013 level). Freight transport and tourism fell by a third.
Representatives of local businesses were involved in the discussion of anti-crisis measures after the adoption of the plan, says Evgenia Kalinina, director of the Association for Investor Support of Crimea and Sevastopol. “Many entrepreneurs have specific problems and issues that politicians cannot solve,” she says. – The cost of supplies for electrical goods stores has skyrocketed, and labor costs are rising. Can the anti-crisis plan somehow help in this situation?”
Due to the rise in the dollar exchange rate, everyone is leaving for the shadow sector and starting to pay “black” wages, Kalinina adds.
Many residents did not have time not only to obtain Russian passports, but even to apply for one due to gigantic queues, says a representative of the Sevastopol branch of Business Russia. Because of this, according to him, in accordance with the Russian law on migrants, many enterprises are forced to buy migration patents for 2,5 thousand rubles, even for local employees. per month or reduce staff. “Many people don’t pay these amounts, and there aren’t enough employees anyway,” he says.
However, when Delovaya Rossiya tried to discuss this problem with city government officials, they did not show up for the meeting.
Let us recall that, according to Moscow economists, about 96% of enterprises in Crimea and Sevastopol are small and medium-sized businesses.
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