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The first issue raised in an interview was current economic turmoils in Russia.
Mr. Murichev said the period of economic uncertainty is still ongoing, however, now it is known where the problems come from and how the economic situation can be managed. Earlier this year, - he says - the Russian government and business community were at a fix with inner problems and gloomy perspectives. An adverse effect of inner problems was multiplied by sanctions regime excluding Russia from getting funding and imports of dual-use equipment.
The priority now is to invest to help out small and medium businesses to develop their activities. Mr. Murichev says structural changes will follow If potentially competitive businesses are backed up by the government.
Still, the economic situation is furthermore aggravated by opaque economic reports. When the crisis broke out the Central Bank of Russia took the decision to help the Russian economy by lowering the key interest rate, otherwise the economy would experience much bigger troubles.
Mr. Murichev also adds that these problems are inherently linked to the fact that after the collapse of the socialist economy and turbulent 90s in Russia, the country has been unaware how to really build a market economy. Specialists are either scarce or bad-educated. That is why an idea of professions standartization is being implemented. With that purpose the National Council of professional qualifications was established. It is headed by the RSPP’s President A. Shokhin.
13 councils on qualifications development have been established so far and Mr. Murichev heads financial one. Its aim is to develop standards for employees working in the sphere of finances. The council has already developed more than 10 standards working closely with relevant Ministries and the Central Bank. The standards will be applied to education process in institutions thus giving them extra points to their status and making graduates more competitive.
But Mr. Murichev points out that the money is always a problem with that kind of initiatives. Considering a relatively low standards of education, business should be working closely with institutions in order to get specialists they need.
Industry and economy are first to be helped with the new standards as these are the most vulnerable spheres.
Finally, Mr. Murichev touches upon standardization of financial sector in the framework of Eurasian Economic Union.
However – he says – the base should be an increasing turnover within the EEU. And here precisely the sanctions imposed against Russia could be beneficiary as they give impetus to domestic production of machine and defense industries. It was the first time in 25 years that real breakthrough was seen there. And that happed thanks to sanctions. Now other sectors should follow suit.