Russia’s official name is “the Russian Federation.” But today, this country is not really a federation at all. Under President Vladimir Putin, with his ideology of the “vertical of power,” it has become a unitary, even hypercentralized state.
Some commentators have gone so far as to call Russia a failed state. It is narrower but equally accurate to say that it is a failed federation.
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