Problems and Perspectives of Doing Business in Post-crisis Russia

The article deals with one of the key problems facing modern Russian society in terms of development of the market economy and increase of competitiveness in the world market, that is improvement of relationship between business structures and public authorities. Over the last two decades after transition of the country to the market model of economy, relations between the government and private sector have repeatedly changed that was promoted by changes of the political environment and members of the Russian ruling elite. The process of business start-up in post-Soviet Russia and redistributions of considerable part of the state property between private owners were accompanied by a great number of troubles, including criminalization of economy and tampering with government institutions. These problems were largely caused by absence of initial economic reforms in the country with the developed state policy concerning business.