Putin is no communist, Russia is not a communist country for sometime. Sorry that you missed the memo.
In Putin's March 16 speech declaring the world is "de-globalizing" - the first comments he made in response to Western economic sanctions was to call on Russian entrepreneurs and private business to step up to replace Western companies that left. He called on government officials to lower taxes and fees to make local private investment more attractive. He called for less bureaucracy and for local officials to speed up new business creation to create employment. He mentioned nothing about growing government business, nothing about subsidies, nothing about increased welfare benefits
Its funny because especially in the face of a major crisis, you would NEVER hear such words from anyone in the Federal Government or Democrat Party