Lilia Shevtsova, Igor Klyamkin: This Omnipotent and Impotent Government: the Evolution of the Political System in Post-Communist Russia.

September 1999, 59 pp. In English

This essay is a description of the current structure of power in Russia. The authors set out to highlight the major contradictions and paradoxes of Russia’s post-communist system of government. They conclude that the inherent contradictions of an "elected monarchy" make this system unsustainable, and that delay in its reform only increases the danger of a turn toward authoritarianism.