... in smaller and local elections but the numbers do remain significantly higher than that in the United States. After the collapse of the Soviet Union Boris Yeltsin drafted a constitution that was approved by the voters of Russia. Yeltsin referred to the new system as a "Presidential Republic." The new system was modeled after the Government in France and is a combination of presidentialism and parlimentarism ... ...

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