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Nowadays, the level of development of social entrepreneurship in Russia is rather low. To find out the reasons that led to such state of things, some political measures in Russia and abroad are compared and analyzed. It is stated that in most part the successes of social entrepreneurship in the USA and the UK were determined by the active intervention of the state into the process of development of social entrepreneurship in the form of grants and premiums or by creating a special infrastructure in the form of social stock exchange or microfinance institutions. In Russia such processes were not initiated. Vice versa, neoliberalizm predominates in the political sphere, which, in turn, influenced much the development of social entrepreneurship. So, for instance, the law on social entrepreneurship, which was enacted on first reading, doesn’t contain any measures of public support for social enterprises, which hampers much the development of social entrepreneurship. Besides, the wrong definition of social entrepreneurship based on the principles of self-sufficiency and financial sustainability is present in the scientific circles. It is stated that when such phenomena influence the process of determining the strategy of social entrepreneurship in Russia, a confusion, which results in the low level of development of social entrepreneurship, occurs. The findings of the paper are five factors that hamper much the development of social entrepreneurship in Russia. Keywords: social entrepreneurship, innovation, neoliberalizm, governmentaln Russia and abroad are compared and analyzed.