Not quite there yet

From a BBC Monitoring report sent around in Johnson's Russia List earlier this week:

[...] Ren TV's late-night news on 12 April noted that the number of bureaucrats has risen to 1,462,000, which is some 100 per person. Presenter Mikhail Kurennoy noted that since 2001 the number of officials has been "growing at an amazing rate", despite pledges to the contrary by President Putin and Prime Minister Fradkov. "There are now more bureaucrats than there were in the USSR," Kurennoy observed.

Right, the USSR never had more than 80 bureaucrats per person, tops...