Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: Russia’s Hybrid Regime

Issue Date October 2001
Volume 12
Issue 4
Page Numbers 65-70
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In Russia, formally democratic institutions coexist uneasily with the reality of tightly consolidated bureaucratic and executive power.

About the Author

Lilia Shevtsova is the author of Interregnum: Russia Between Past and Future (2014) and Putin’s Russia (2010). 

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