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Article: The Russian State Duma, On-Stage and Off: Inquiry, Impeachment, and Opposition.
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- Demokratizatsiya
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Legislatures in mixed regimes the world over are often less popular than presidents, dismissed as "talking shops" while executive power lays claim to active and decisive leadership.(1) This tendency is clear in Russia's relatively new political institutions, with the State Duma rated in December 1999 as the least trusted organ of government.(2) Both reflecting and helping to consolidate this attitude, the harsh national media routinely belittle the Duma: Deputies are said to "scurry like cockroaches" as they register electronic votes for themselves and their absent colleagues during the allotted fifteen-second period, the television news describes deputies as "babbling" ...
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