Social factors weren't the only factors in which the people lived. Political factors also greatly affected the way the Russian people lived. During the Soviet period, the government was communist and that was the only power. In 1993 a new constitution was passed, more of a democratic one. It greatly increased the power of the presidency and gave some new guidelines for the people like electoral procedures instead of the old "passing it down-. There are four major political parties in Russia. The communist parties, Russian nationalist parties, democratic parties, and special interest parties. Since the fall of USSR the power of administrative area leaders has greatly increased. They can no longer be dismissed by the central authorities as they could be when USSR was still running. By late 1997 all chief executive officers were elected democratically. Russia's former president Boris Yeltsin tried many times to reform the status in which the government was at the time. He tried to make it a fully democratic country by drawing up new constitutions to make the country run better. With politics goes economy. Economy greatly affects the way people live. It can support them in every way possible. While the Soviet Union was still up, they tried to make a socialist economy where the centralized government had the most power and controlled most of the production planning and prices to distribution. After the fall of the USSR Russian reformers tried to change the socialist economy. They wanted to create a modern economy while trying to create a democratic state based on democratic laws. Late 1991 the economy was in trouble, it was dropping like never before and it was in the worst state yet. Reformists tried to replace the economy into something that would work better, Yeltsin wanted to cut the budgets to something lower than what they had. Later he tried to buy some private business to try to raise the economy and the government but that did not help much.