On January 1, 2004 the VAT rate decreased from 20 percent to 18 percent.[22] In 2007-2008 Putin, both as president and later as prime minister, promoted a decrease in the VAT rate to 12 percent by 2010;[23] Putin's allies Sergey Chemezov and Minister of Economics Elvira Nabiullina support this proposal.
True, but saying that every nation in Europe is modeled after Marxism is just flat out wrong