Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Yes, they are. Just easily. You can still pay for the apartments in cash, you can get a whore or just raise a hand on the street and stop any car driver w/o a taxi license to deliver yourself to anywhere. You can easily rent apartments in Moscow and the tax inspection won't get a ruble from it (to be honest, it will happen in 99% cases). Nobody pays a tax from that and course it's not included into the Russian GDP. This is about NOW, not about yesterday.