The history of economic crises has proven time and time again that small and medium-sized businesses have often prevented the country from a complete budget collapse. But for this, serious preferential taxes were introduced, banks created special conditions for the growth of a number of such companies. So far in Russia we do not see serious and systematic steps for the development of medium and small businesses. Everything done by the government resembles an imitation of vigorous activity, but even this does not kill the business completely, it adapts and tries to develop.
With the central bank maintaining high interest rates and expensive loans, and such a number of checks by fiscal officials and security officials, it is impossible to survive, let alone develop. As they say, so far everything holds up not thanks to, but in spite of.
One gets the impression that for the Kremlin, the state is big corporations of businessmen who are close to the elders. They don't care about the rest.