Officially, the Russian Federation is a semi-presidential republic, which is not all that dissimilar to a presedential democracy like the United States.
However, Putin has abused the political system to keep himself in power, and thus has sort of made the unofficial government an authoritarian dictatorship. I do not believe it qualifies exactly as facist, however (simply because I am not a facist expert and do not know every qualification to distinguish it from authoritarian or totalitarian government). This is why Wikipedia does not label the Russian Federation as facist, but rather a “federal semi-presidential republic under an authoritarian dictatorship.”
This is the exact fascist playbook though. Technically, on paper, the third reich wasn’t a dictatorship either. Just that Hitler and his allies introduced and amended legislature to give him emergency powers, and basically declared a permanent state of emergency (very simplified).
Well as I said, I am not an expert on facism, and it would be ultracrepidarian of me to apply the label definitively when I do not know it well enough.
Officially, the Russian Federation is a semi-presidential republic, which is not all that dissimilar to a presedential democracy like the United States.
However, Putin has abused the political system to keep himself in power, and thus has sort of made the unofficial government an authoritarian dictatorship. I do not believe it qualifies exactly as facist, however (simply because I am not a facist expert and do not know every qualification to distinguish it from authoritarian or totalitarian government). This is why Wikipedia does not label the Russian Federation as facist, but rather a “federal semi-presidential republic under an authoritarian dictatorship.”
This is the exact fascist playbook though. Technically, on paper, the third reich wasn’t a dictatorship either. Just that Hitler and his allies introduced and amended legislature to give him emergency powers, and basically declared a permanent state of emergency (very simplified).
Well as I said, I am not an expert on facism, and it would be ultracrepidarian of me to apply the label definitively when I do not know it well enough.
Guess you should have let someone else answer the question then, huh.