Russia
Brandon Collins
04/01/2013
Ms. Norris
Pd. 6
Type of Government/ Constitution
Title of Leader: President
Current leader: Vladimir Putin
The leader is elected.
Term in leadership: 6years
Qualifications Required: Russian Federation citizen, 35 years old, resided in Russia for
at least 10 years.
Lawmaking Body: 450-member State Duma, and the 176-member Federation Council
Its structure is bicameral.
Freedoms
- They do not have as much freedom of speech and press but they do have some.
- They have the same freedom of religion as the U.S.
- They do not have the right to bear arms.
Political Parties
Number of political parties: 4 major
Names of parties:
United Russia-Conservatism, Statism, Pragmatism, Centrism
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia-Communism, Marxism–Leninism, Patriotism
Communism Party of the Russian Federation-Russian nationalism, Pan-Slavism, Neo–Imperialism
A Just Russia-Social democracy, Democratic socialism
Elections and Voting
Qualifications to vote: citizen of Russia, be 18 years of age
You are disqualified from voting for: legal incompetency imprisonment following
criminal conviction
Frequency of elections: The president is elected for, at most, two consecutive six-year
terms by the people (raised from four years from December 2008).
Types of elections: On the federal level, Russia elects a president as head of state and
a legislature, one of the two chambers of the Federal Assembly.The Federal Assembly
(Federalnoe Sobranie) has two chambers. The State Duma (Gosudarstvennaja Duma)
has 450 members, elected for five-year terms (also four years up to December 2008),
all of them by proportional representation. The Federation Council (Sovet Federatsii) is
not directly elected; each of the 83 federal subjects of Russia sends 2 delegates to the
Federal Council, for a total of 166 members.
Taxes and Government Finance
Income Tax: Russia has a 20% corporate and 13% individual income tax.
Other ways Russia’s government makes money:
-Petroleum import/export
-Selling nuclear power
Government spending
- Military and weapons development.
Law
Crime rate: Among highest homicide rate in the world
Prison population: Approximately 1% of total population
Punishment for crimes: Life imprisonment, execution by shooting
Court system:
Current Relations with the United
States
1992 Yeltsin visits the United States.
1992 Russia attends the Washington Summit.
1994 First joint U.S.-Russian Space Shuttle mission.
1994 Russia joins the Partnership for Peace program.
1996 Ratification of START 2 treaty.
1998 Launch of International Space Station.
2002 U.S. president George W. Bush and Russian president Vladimir Putin meet in Moscow and sign a treaty
on strategic offensive reductions and declaration on a new strategic relationship.
2007 Russia offers the United States to put missile defenses in Azerbaijan.
2009 Russia agrees to allow NATO supplies to pass through Russia on the route to Afghanistan.
2010 Russia and the U.S. reach a final consensus on the replacement of START I, allowing for signing of the
New START treaty on April 8; it will eventually see the reduction of both nations' nuclear arsenals to 1,500
warheads per country.
2010 American soldiers participated in the 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade alongside its European allies
and members of the CIS, marking the first time American soldiers have ever participated in the annual event.
2011 NATO and Russia have their first joint submarine exercise on May 30.
2011 NATO and Russia have their first joint fighter jet exercise, called "Vigilant Skies 2011" on June 6.
2012 Russia agrees to host a U.S. and NATO transit hub at Ulyanovsk airport to help the U.S. and NATO
withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Works Cited
http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
http://www.state.gov/misc/list/index.htm