Economic Development Minister has promised to create a true infrastructure for the development of small business in Russia

According to the source of the Ministry of Finance, through the development of special programs to support small businesses for the year 2009 funding for this sector increased nearly four-fold. Minister of Economic Development of Russia. Nabiullina expressed its opinion on the matter: "If it was initially planned to send for this purpose more than 4 billion rubles, with the recent decision to allocate an additional 7.5 billion rubles this year to support small and medium-sized businesses will be allocated 18 , 5 billion rubles. " This statement the Minister made at the meeting of the Board of Legislators in the Federation Council. According to Nabiullina, it became clear that in 2010, unlike 2009, the focus of support programs for small businesses will be made not to creating new jobs and opening small businesses and the creation of innovation for existing small businesses, as well as the creation of infrastructure for it. In support of small business in 2010 should be granted financial support to more than 600 innovative small businesses. Funds to support such enterprises will be taken from the Fund for promotion of small business in science and technology. In the fields offered to work on creating a regional innovation infrastructure.