bellicoseI hope that your post is a sarcasm, but I'll try to comment it anyway.
Yeltsin's democracy completely converted into one branch.
Yeltsin's democracy ahahaa... I had a good laugh here, thanks.
Yeltsin's so-called "democracy" was far more totalitarian than current "undemocratic" regime.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=760339.msg8650547#msg8650547And this black october/october coup was only beginning of Yeltsin's "democracy". In fact, Yeltsin surpassed Andropov and Brezhnev in terms of blood on his hands. So no surprise that he got all these heart attacks.
Putin making decision about Mayors of all big cities, Governors of all regions.
As far I remember, there are few schemes defined by constitution and federal laws on self-governing. Appointment by the president with approval by the local parliament, unanonimous election by the parliament from the set of offered candidates, unanonymous election by the local parliament or anonymous election by locals of district [city, republic or whatever]. Exact scheme is defined by the regional statutory document.
Right now ER has a majority, of course, but there are communist and LDPR governors, mayors, MPs... Just one example, mayor of Novosibirsk (3rd largest city) is a member of communist party.
his political party has >50%, and nobody can stop this.
ER supports him, but it's not "his" party. It was founded by Boris Berezovsky, a dead friend of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and funded by him from the beginning... Many people still think that large stake is still owned by his cronies. So I'd say that it's a party of oligarchs rather than Putin himself.
and nobody can stop this.
As far I remember, ER lost 17% of seats in the parliament after 2011 parliamentary elections. So, never say never, everything is possible.
