At the Leaders of Russia forum, journalists asked him to name three main difficulties. Gref replied that the state suffered most of all from the “lack of an effective system of public administration”.

“If this problem is solved, all the others will be overcome automatically,” said the head of the bank.

In all other respects, in his opinion, "just do not indulge."

The broadcast was conducted on the official page of the event on Facebook.

Earlier, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called poverty one of the main problems of the country's economy.