A Standard VAT rate of 20% applies to most goods and services in Russia. A Reduced VAT Rate of 10% applies to food, children’s clothes, books, medical equipment and some services. There is also a Special VAT Rate of 16.67% applicable to e-services.
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”