M. Movsesyan Elections to the Russian State Duma as a Factor of Creation and Development of the Political System in Today’s Russia

Abstract: As the principal factor of the creation and development of the democratic election tradition in today’s Russia, this article chronologically considers the election campaigns for the lower house of the parliament during the period from 1993 to 2011 and expresses the opinion about possible trends of the forthcoming election cycle in the Russian Federation in 2016-2018. It is noted that at this historical stage, the Russian political system is still affected by the influence both of the internal political factors and external geopolitical processes. At the same time, new objectively occasioned trends are being actively created and they are not affected by the environment. The methodological base of this research is the systematic, structural and functional, comparative historic approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, observation, and modeling. Since 1993, elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation have been taking place in the new history of our country. Together with the institute of electing the President of the country, they also define the stages of the formation, establishment and development of the political system in today’s Russia. Lawmaking in our country is directly dependent on the quality of the parliament membership and its relationship with the executive federal authorities. It is the history of elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation which enables us to trace the key stages of Russia’s development as a democratic country on the modern geopolitical map of the world.

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