The Russian Federation - Standard 1 (Instituitions)

Type of government; power is centralized, and all control is held by one individual or small elitist group

Soviet Union (union of soviet socialist republics) 1922-1991; communist regime under one party rule (the bolsheviks)

Russia’s national legislature; consists of the upper house (federation council_ and lower house (duma); bicameral

lower house in Russia’s parliament (federal assembly); more powerful than upphouse, but not as powerful as the UK lower house. Today, ½ is proportional and ½ is from SMD (Putin made this happen), in the past it was different.

Advises the Russian head of state (president); made up of leaders including governors and people the president chooses.

same as the semi-presidential system; power is split between the president, the prime minister, and parliament; in Russia, the president has way more power; the PM and parliament typically handle making the legislature.

power is allocated to both the federal government and local governments; in Russia, they technically do this, but putin basically has all control (he appoints the regional leaders.)

the 46 different “provinces” or regions of russia.

the upper house of russia’s parliament; can really only slow down legislature and had way less power than the duma.

Although power is allocated to the different regions of Oblasts of Russia, certain ones are given more power than others.

same as the parliamentary/hybrid system

describes the leaders in a semi-pres/parl-hybrid system. the president has pwoer, alongside the PM and cabinet.

showing/having democratic values; putin lacks in this by means of his own-party system and fraudulent elections.

described the relationship of Putin and Medvedev when Putin wouldn’t serve a 3rd pres. term and had to act as a PM instead.

the systematic collection of statuses that governs the way in which things are run and the rules that a government enacts at the time.

Russia’s high-court; deals primarily with constitutional law. determines if the laws that are challenged are constitutional or not.

the supreme judicial body for civil, criminal, economic and administrative cases.

Russia’s 8 federal districts: central, northwestern, southern, north caucasian, Volga, ural, siberian, and far eastern federal districts.

Russia’s current president. Came to power after yeltsin stepped down. PM from 2008-2012; pres from 2000-2008, and 2012 to current

led the communist soviet union from 1924-1953 (his death)

served as the general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union 1964-1982 (his death)

the 8th, and FINAL leader of the soviet union; from 1985-1991 (the soviet collapse); played major role in ending the cold war and in establishing more economic freedoms in the USSR (which ultimately led to the creation of a democratic Russia.)

Putin’s PM during his first terms, and president of Russia from 2008-2012 when Putin became his PM. He mysteriously disappeared when Putin became president for a second set of terms.

president holds essentially all the power in russia (cause of putin) but some power is allocated to regional governments. Putin appoints tehse regional officials, though, which kind of gets rid of the whole point of the, but they technically still follow asymmetrical federalism.

The president and PM hold executive power in russia; the President is elected through MAJORITY, but if no one has more than 50% then there is a runoff election. The PM is chosen by the president, however the Duma has to approve of the PM. If the Duma doesn't approve, though, the Pres can choose to hold new Duma elections. The president can serve 2 6-year terms, and the PM has no fixed terms. The Duma and fed. Council can elect to impeach the pres each with a ⅔ vote, however the pres holds so much power that this won't happen. The PM can be dismissed by the Pres or through a vote of no confidence.

The Legislative branch in Russia enacts the policy that the president wants to be enacted. The legislature is BI-cameral, with a PM. PM is chosen by the pres, and the upper house is chosen while the lower house is (now) ½ from proportional and ½ from plurality (used to be all proportional but putin wants to be different so bad)

The law, but the law is putin. Everything and anything Putin wants becomes a law.

Judges are appointed by the federation council and serve for life; the judicial branch is made up of the supreme court and constitutional court (talked ab earlier), and kind of just goes with Putin so they don't really do what they should be doing. There are many checks on judicial power since putin controls who is in the judiciary.