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Tikhonova and A. Chepurenko, eds Hanson, P. Istituto Affari Internazionali. Der heterogene Staat. The Russian president is head of state while the prime minister is head of the government. He can also appoint and recall Russian ambassadors, accept credentials from foreign representatives, and sign international treaties.
The Russian presidency has been criticised for being too dictatorial in the past. The president appoints the prime minister to chair the government or cabinet with approval from the State Duma, though he can dismiss government members and the Duma itself under certain conditions. He is also responsible for appointing and dismissing justices to office, and is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with the power to declare national or regional states of martial law, and national states of emergency.
The Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, and Supreme Court of Arbitration sit at the head of the judicial branch of the Russian government; district courts are responsible for criminal trials. Russia Government Russia is a country in Eurasia, and at 6,, square miles, is the largest country in the world, accounting for more than an eighth of the Earth's overall inhabited land area and spanning eleven time zones — it is, however, only the ninth most populous with a population of The legislative branch Constitutionally, Russia is characterised as a federation and semi-presidential republic, in which the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is head of government.
The executive branch The Russian president is head of state while the prime minister is head of the government. The judicial branch The Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, and Supreme Court of Arbitration sit at the head of the judicial branch of the Russian government; district courts are responsible for criminal trials.
Arguably the first step Putin took to consolidate his power came in , when the Russian government took over ORT and NTV, two of the most popular independent media outlets in the country. Thus, he became prime minister once more until , when he was allowed to run for the Presidency again. Between and , it was generally assumed that even though another person was serving as the president, the real power remained with Putin.
In , Putin again won the presidential election. He then had the constitution amended to add an extra two years to his four-year term, so that he could remain president until when he was then elected to a second term.
Thus, he can remain in power until Some, however, believe that he will seek to amend the constitution so that he can rule beyond the end of his second consecutive term. Putin has been accused of assassinating some of his critics on both Russian and foreign soil. Protests in Russia are violently suppressed, and opponents of Putin are routinely arrested and jailed. Some are given lengthy prison sentences. In the most recent case, Alexei Navalny, who is considered by many to be the most prominent opposition leader in Russia, was given a three and a half-year prison sentence for violating the terms of his probation.
His probation is related to another sentence handed down to him for corruption charges viewed by many as political and baseless. Moreover, Navalny violated his probation when he sought medical treatment abroad after being poisoned by a nerve agent.
On the night Navalny was jailed, more than 1, of his supporters were also arrested. Putin has even built a kind of personality cult around himself, in the same way as other dictators throughout history have done.
The wheels of democracy, in theory, are still turning in Russia. Votes are counted behind closed doors, and the results are routinely suspected of being rigged.
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