Edward Belyaev: Activities of the Russian Business Support Infrastructure in the Eurasian Direction

Export is an inherent systemic feature of the national economy health indicator. A country with an outstanding trade imbalance where import dominates over export faces significant risks to national stability. In its turn, export can be resource-based and non-resource-based, and in relation to a country like Russia – energy-based and non-energy-based. Main actors of the export policy implementation can be representatives of big, small and medium businesses. A significant factor is government’s approach and the degree of attention towards the formation of conditions and the creation of infrastructure for export marketing.

This paper is based on the experience of the Export Support Center and Regional Center of the “Enterprise Europe Network” working under the auspices of Tomsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), the opinions and conclusions of the experts from the Russian Federation CCI, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade Analytical Center, as well as the opinions of Mr. Petr Travinsky, an expert of the CCI system, expert of the Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, consulting expert of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and a member of the working group of the Federal Customs Service...