Hey, and while you're looking at the GDP numbers for Russia, check out these GNP PER CAPITA numbers (second column) World Bank PACIFIC BASIN ECONOMIC COUNCIL
The Russian people are generating less money per person than the people in PERU for God's sake!
The only reason the Establishment doesn't want to tax those poor suckers is because those poor suckers have no money left to tax. (Don't worry -- soon enough the same dynamic will be at work in the Western World...)
Mark W.