2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Russia
|Publisher||United States Department of State| |Author||Bureau
of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor| |Publication Date||11
March 2008| |Cite as||United States Department of State, 2007
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Russia, 11 March
2008, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/47d92c4ac.html
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Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 11, 2008 The Russian Federation has a strong presidency
with a weak multiparty political system, a government headed by
a prime minister, and a bicameral legislature (Federal Assembly)
consisting of a lower house (State Duma) and an upper house
(Federation Council). The country had an esti