Russia’s Political Regime and its Future Perspectives
Russia’s Political Regime and its Future Perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The analysis, which includes non-formalised possibilities of ruling elite to exert its influence in a political system beside the formal attributes of a political regime does not allow to qualify Putin’s Russia as a democracy. Currently, the most important political decisions in Russia are being adopted by the ‘militocratic elite’ moderated by Putin. The enclave resembles a coterie that has its specific structure, performs according to its own rules of the game, and is almost unaccountable to the country’s electorate. According to some attributes, such enclave-based Russia’s political regime resembles a mixture of the “developmental”, oil exporting Asian regime and of the fascist one. However, these parallels do not imply that the future transformation of Putinite Russia will do necessarily repeat the experience of the other countries.

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