Measures of Governmental Support for Small and Medium-sized Businesses in the Sphere of E-commerce

Popenkova Daria Konstantinovna

The article is part of a series of studies devoted to the issues of state regulation of small and medium-sized enterprises in the retail sector. The article focuses on the support of enterprises engaged in online trading through marketplaces – an area that seems promising for small businesses to master. The article considers support in other countries of the world during the pandemic, provides regulatory legal acts regulating governmental support measures in Russia, a separate emphasis is placed on Moscow with the largest concentration of business in the country, and also provides an example of a collaboration of a large marketplace with a Russian export center to assist doing business in conditions of digitalization.

Keywords:governmental support for small and medium-sized enterprises, marketplaces, non-resource exporters, e-commerce, SMEs.