what form of government does russia have today?
Constitutional republic
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 In Russia , inmates of a women 's prison experienced " a collective mass psychosis " in the weeks leading up to the supposed doomsday , while residents of a factory town near Moscow reportedly emptied a supermarket of matches , candles , food and other supplies . The Minister of Emergency Situations declared in response that according to " methods of monitoring what is occurring on the planet Earth , " there would be no apocalypse in December . When asked when the world would end in a press conference , Russian President Vladimir Putin said , " In about 4 @.@ 5 billion years . " 

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 Changes in temporal affairs have beaten against the walls of Etchmiadzin for sixteen centuries like little waves against a granite cliff . Now the Tsar has fallen , the Soviets have come . The Soviets may endure for a few years or for a few centuries ; it is all one to Etchmiadzin . Some day the Soviets will go , as all temporal governments do , but Etchmiadzin will stand . 

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 On 11 December 2007 , reports emerged that a framework for the new state was discussed between both countries . On 27 May 2008 , Belarusian President Lukashenko said that he had named Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the " prime minister " of the Russia @-@ Belarus alliance . The significance of this act was not immediately clear ; some incorrectly speculated that Putin would become president of a unified state of Russia and Belarus after stepping down as Russian president in May 2008 . 

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 The Russian public 's view of Khrushchev remains mixed . According to a major Russian pollster , the only eras of the 20th century that Russians evaluate positively are those under Nicholas II , and under Khrushchev . A poll of young Russians found that they felt Nicholas II had done more good than harm , and all other 20th @-@ century Russian leaders more harm than good — except Khrushchev , about whom they were evenly divided . Subsequent polls , however , have found Brezhnev and Lenin the most popular Russian leaders of the century . Khrushchev biographer William Tompson related the former premier 's reforms to those which occurred later : 

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 In 2007 , following a similar line of argument , Bukovsky suggested that Russia was too big and should be broken up into several smaller countries . It was an opinion quickly reported to audiences around the world by the new State @-@ funded English @-@ language broadcaster Russia Today . 
