What kind of government does Russia have now, that it has both a prime minister and a president? Either one or the other will be a figurehead, or else there is going to be a tension over the “controlling legal authority” in the executive. I freely admit I do not grok Russian constitutions.
Many countries have a president and a Prime minister. Isreal comes to mind. I think Germany does as well.
[What kind of government does Russia have now, that it has both a prime minister and a president.]
An Oligarchic Kleptocracy, same as usual.
Russia is a presidential republic in form.
President is an elected head of the state. His duty is to set vectors of both domestic and international policy, to enforce constitution, he is a supreme military commander. He is a strategic center.
Prime minister is an appointed official who has an administrative role and his job is to provide technical execution of presidential policy using ministers by branches. He is a tactical figure hired by president.
Legislation is a Federal Assembly. It has a Federative Counsil & State Duma. It is working pretty similiar to US Senate & House of Representatives and formed pretty same way.
Apart from form, Russia is an Oligarchy.
It means a state ruled by monopolist corporations who has de-facto privatized government organs as non-market tools of competition.
In 90’s it was run by Soros while Yeltsin was drank without any rule of law.
Under Putin, government improved it’s position turning into a player, not only a tool. Soros and his associates were kicked out of the country or imprisoned.
It doesn’t mean the system has changed too much and won’t eat Putin in case it needs.
The reality is most players enjoying his regime and it is really better than Yeltsin’s ‘democracy’. More government control is bad but it is better than government which is not even trying to control and is absent at all or only acting as an agressive paid agent of your competitors.
There are at least some rules now. An idea of tight control of Russian life by some sort of dictatorship is bullcrap.