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RUSSIA: DUMA'S ROLE NOW SAID LESS THAN UNDER NICHOLAS II.(Brief Article)

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database  |  Date: 2/15/2001

Writing in "Segodnya" on 6 February, political observer Leonid Radzikhovskii said that "today the Duma plays a significantly smaller role than under [former Russian President Boris] Yeltsin or Nicholas II." There is no opposition in the parliament or in the population, Radzikhovskii suggested, and as a result, "the Kremlin orders" and the Duma complies. Ivan ...

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