Methinks being taught Marx applies to virtually every 45+ economist in post-East-Bloc countries who now advocate neo-liberalism. And by every indication, Russia's economic policy today is a version of neo-liberalism, even if it differs in details from the EU or the US version.

If I may bring my sector as example, while the USA always was private railways owning train and track, and Europe now tries re-privatisation via open access and franchising, Russia embarked in recent years on partial or full IPOs of separated-out company branches, including almost the entire freight transport.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}