... Post-Soviet Review, have been used. Besides these articles, two books from Sakwa (2004) and Oates (2006) and reports from the Global Attitude Program and Freedom House were consulted for this paper. For certain examples, separate online news articles have been accessed. Analysis Semi-Authoritarian Regime The first ... "democratic" chosen parliament is in fact an orchestrated political opposition by the Kremlin (Gel'man, 2008). Many real opposition parties have been banned because they did not meet the legal conditions, or they did not achieve the voting threshold of 7% (Gel'man, 2008; ...

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