The Super-presidency
arose after the constitutional crisis between President Yeltsin and
the Supreme Soviet in 1993. Yeltsin dismissed the Soviet who refused
to leave. The matter was settled by armed conflict. The sole
surviving institution author; the President made resolutions that
formed the basis of a new constitution and set the parameters for the
existence of the new legislative body, the Duma. The President had
extraordinary powers. Acting in the role of Caesar and James Madison
simultaneously, President Yeltsin had to create a new state
government within an existing advanced society, rather than for a
frontier society as the author of the U.S. Constitution was able to
accomplish with almost unanimous support from his peers.
Yeltsin had to get support from certain parties with real power such as rural governors and oligarchs and that led to some corruption. Yeltsin began a work of reform in process and trusted in Vladimir Putin to continue the legacy of building a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and the chief guardian of the state somewhat more so than others.
Yeltsin had to get support from certain parties with real power such as rural governors and oligarchs and that led to some corruption. Yeltsin began a work of reform in process and trusted in Vladimir Putin to continue the legacy of building a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and the chief guardian of the state somewhat more so than others.
https://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/keynew.htm
Polity IV Country Report 2009-2010
https://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/keynew.htm
Polity IV Country Report 2009-2010
On
the Federal Organs of Power during the Transitional Period
Polozhenie
‘O federal’nykh organakh vlasti na perekhodnyi period’
(Resolution “On the Federal Organs of Power during the Transitional
Period”),” in Iz istorii sozdania konstitutsii Rossiiskoi
Federatsii, vol. 4/3, 461-466.
My
general view of the Russian government challenges since 1998...
Russia
since the 1998 financial crisis and default has only slowly yet
somewhat steadily moved toward reform such that a market economy
prevails. It was not so many years ago that Vladimir Putin ended the
oligarch domination of the economy and domination of former Soviet
assets that they had taken much of. That order of oligarch power was
regarded as an unfair distribution of wealth, yet was left somewhat
as it was. The economy moved toward liberalization sometimes with
substantial state investment and stimulation.
The
process was advanced by the rise in world oil prices in the 2000s
that continued until the crash following fracking of old oil fields
to renew supply. A surfeit of world oil production made oil dependent
states lose much revenue. Alaska in the United States faced a
government budget crisis and Russia too lost nearly half of its GDP.
If bad actors are targeted, the principle of mass punishment should not target the innocent too. The U.S. should encourage Russia to continue developing a market economy along sound ecological economic principles rather than provide mass punishment for making Crimea a ninth federal district.
Even
so Russia continued a slower advance toward a market economy though
the state held some major banks and oil companies. It began an income
tax of a modest scale though it had difficulty collecting that.
Russia faced many internal and external challenges before the regime
of foreign sanctions began to appear for international contention to
permanently wrest away the Ukraine and Crimea from Russia.
The
second largest party in Russia is still the communist party. The
United Russia party- by far the largest, is basically a coalition of
four formerly separate parties that joined to beat the communists.
The economic and social dynamics of economic reform is occurring
concurrent with reform of government, and eventually constitutional
structures, and stimulation of business and new infrastructure
development. All of that is challenging and expensive. While the
United States and Europe tend to place themselves into a belligerent
and adversarial as possible position comprising something of a threat
to Russian security.
My
concern is that the sanctions and hostile external relationship with
Russia will retard the growth of Russia as a market economy and in
the long run solidify less than free enterprise elements in Russia.
Apparently
Russians have a trust in state run media and state ownership of
business because of historical reasons that lie in the fact that
authoritarian or Tsarist government were the fact of Russia for 1000
years. Only since the end of the Cold War has Russia had a pluralist
government, although a multi-party Duma/congress existed briefly,
shortly before the Bolshevik takeover to end that and the tsar.
Ronald
Reagan had a policy of constructive engagement with South Africa and
that led to the DeClerk government and end of apartheid. Reagan also
ended the Cold War along with President Gorbachev in part because of
hi affable character engendering trust. The United States should
think deeply about its reckless and fay sanctions on Russia, since
they may harm U.S. interests more so than Russian, in the long run.
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