Russian Democracy

Russian Democracy

I find Russia to be an interesting democracy because it transformed from a communist country living underneath a series of dictators for the better part of the twentieth century to electing their first president ever by popular vote in such a short period of time. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the Soviet Union began to rapidly collapse. By 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected the first ever president by popular vote. On December 8, 1991 Yeltsin and leaders of the Ukraine and Belarus formed the Commonwealth of Independence. they were later joined by eight other countries and this alliance of countries effectively ended the Soviet Union. In December of 1993, Yeltsin's constitution was passed by majority of Russian voters establishing a presidential - parliamentary system in Russia. Unfortunately, under president Putin's administration Russia, in recent years, has begun to be considered a semi-authoritarian regime.

In recent years under President Putin, the government of Russia has begun to revert back to a dictatorship in some ways. Russia has begun to put some of the countries industries under state control again and has begun to tight government controls again.

Russia's government has a presidential - parliamentary system which consists of a dual executive with a president who is the head of state and a prime minister who is the head of government, a bicameral legislature, the Federal Assembly, which consists of the Federation Council, the upper house, and the Duma, the lower house, and an independent judiciary which consists of the Constitutional Court, constitutional law, the Supreme Court, civil and criminal law, and Supreme Arbitration Court, economic law.

Russia has a presidential - parliamentary government. In Russia, like in France, the president holds a great deal of power. Though he is directed by the people he has the ability to potentially abuse his power by appointing people from his own party to power positions and changing the country's civil rights etc. The parties in Russia are the Liberal Democratic Party, an arch - nationalist grouping, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, opposed to the rapid economic transfer process, the Agrarian Party, representing collective farmers, Russia's Choice, pro-reform, and Yabloko, opposed to Yeltsin's centralized constitution.

When Yeltsin took over, he radically changed