Russia. Entrepreneur's Day 2013

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Russian business has its own special, long-suffering history, it remembers the times of dawn and periods of complete 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 90s to the 2000s, which mark the development of the business sector in a more civilized direction. Recently, Russian businessmen have acquired their own professional holiday - this is Entrepreneur's Day, which is celebrated annually on May 26th. Despite the relative progress that nevertheless occurred after the elimination of the statehood of the economy of Soviet Russia, in comparison with the entrepreneurs of the West (Europe and the USA), our businessmen are like pioneers, whom fate constantly tests for strength of mind.

If we convert the development of Russian entrepreneurship into numbers, we get the following:only 4%, 3% of entrepreneurs are engaged in financial activities, and the lion's share, which is 93%, falls on trade. Of course, buying and reselling is much easier than doing research, innovation, technology development, but is this kind of activity true entrepreneurship? The sphere of trade, rather, can be called the word "business", while entrepreneurship is something more creative, an art, if I may say so. But the art is not just to make money, but to be an innovator, to do something better than anyone else, writing your name into history. How to name the activities carried out by Russian businessmen is a moot point. But such a holiday as Entrepreneur's Day already exists in Russia.

Why Russian citizens so diligently follow the beaten path, not wanting to discover their own path to freedom, is unknown. Perhaps this is due to the difficulties that stand in the way of business development. According to numerous sociological and journalistic surveys among entrepreneurs, every sixth of them have problems in developing their enterprise 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, legal support and, actively communicating with each other, develop economic ties.

In 2013, the Russian Business Week is timed to coincide with such a holiday,like Entrepreneur's Day. The planned grandiose events were held in no less significant places. For example, the round table dedicated to solving issues in the field of intellectual property in Russia, which took place 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 Government of the Moscow Region. You can talk about most of the planned events in the past tense, all meetings were equally informative and productive. However, the best is yet to come, and this is not the Russian Entrepreneur's Day. We are talking about various exhibitions, forums and round tables. The Week of Russian Business will end on May 26 on Entrepreneur's Day, which will be celebrated on a special scale.

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