After short thought..what do these geeks think makes for economic growth? They tend to think that money comes from nothing. How do they think that Russia is going to expand without any Mining, Logging and Farming? Without any one of those three they will not expand economically. All Russia has to do is create the capitalist atmosphere to get going. Which, it appears they are about to screw up real fast.
The country never ceases to amaze me. They can become the richest country ever on the planet and they continue to mess it all up at very turn.
Actually they've been working towards it for a long time: observe: 13% flat tax, 24% corporate tax (14% for IT), no sales tax, 1/3rd off the VAT and 1/2 off the Payroll. They've been trying to streamline government for small business initiation...of course this is turning out to be a lot harder, as bureaucracies are resilient and evil creatures. They have also paid off almost all their external debts and have kept a deficit free government for 5 years.