Russia going commercial?

This MindBullet talks about "the recently privatized Russian effort" in 2015. Could this news story about Russia's new commercial spaceport be the start of that process?
http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/russia-to-build-new-commercial-spaceport.html

Space tourism and satellite launches compete for profits

Dateline: 27 September 2015

The race to launch a successful private space business has been won - and the victor, surprisingly, is not Virgin's Sir Richard Branson, but a 40-year-old internet entrepreneur from Pretoria, South Africa. Elon Musk, who became a billionaire from co-founding PayPal, has successfully flown three flights of tourists just over 200 kms into space in his Falcon 9T rocket - an orbital flight high ...