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The overall tax burden was lower in Russia under Putin than in most European countries. [151] President Putin signed into law in 2024, a bill imposing a 13% progressive wealth tax for those earning up to 2.4 million rubles ($27,500) annually, a 22% income tax on those earning above 50 million rubles ($573,000), and a 5% increase on corporate taxes.
Songs of praising type started appearing as soon as Vladimir Putin took the office. An early notable example is the song Takogo, kak Putin! ("[I want] The One Like Putin") by the girl band Singing Together [2] It topped the Russian Music Charts in 2002.
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by land area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] Russia is the ninth-most populous country in the world and the most populous country in Europe. It is a ...
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Balzer wrote on the Putin thesis and Russian energy policy and concludes along with Olcott that "The primacy of the Russian state in the country’s energy sector is non-negotiable", and cites the insistence on majority Russian ownership of any joint-venture, particularly since BASF signed the Gazprom Nord Stream-Yuzhno-Russkoye deal in 2004 ...
Poyushchie vmeste (Russian: Поющие вместе, romanized: Singing Together) is a Russian electro dance band, whose song "Takogo kak Putin", a satirical song about Vladimir Putin, was a hit across Russia. It topped the Russian Music Charts in 2002. [1]
The song, written during the first term of Russian president Vladimir Putin (2000–2004), sarcastically idealises Putin; [1] [2] however, contrary to the song's satirical intentions, the song was officially used by Putin's 2004 re-election campaign, [3] and the satirical undertones were largely unnoticed and ignored by the Russian populace.
The band, under their English-language band name Genghis Khan, released a version of the song with English lyrics entitled "Moscow" in Australia in 1980, the year of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [1] Australia's Channel 7 used the song as the theme to their television coverage of the Moscow Olympics, and the single was issued locally in a die-cut ...