Russian Federation (President Nemtsov)

The Russian Federation(Российская Федерация), also Russia(Россия), the RF(РФ)- is a state located in Eastern Europe, the Far East, Siberia and North Asia.

Moscow the capital. National language - Russian.

The political system is a presidential-parliamentary republic with a federal structure.

Russia borders on sixteen states (more than any other country in the world).

Russia is a multinational state with a wide ethnocultural diversity. The population is 153 million (2037).Most of the population (about 63%) considers themselves to Orthodoxy, which makes Russia a country with the largest Orthodox population in the world.

Russia is a member of several international organizations: UN, OSCE, NATO, EU, Council of Europe, CIS, BSEC, CSTO, GKMCHP, WIPO, IMO, WTO, UNWTO, WWF, SCO, APEC, BRICS, COOMET, IOC, IEC, ISO, EUREKA, IRENA, G20 and others

Government structure
Russia is a presidential-parliamentary republic of a federal type. The head of state is the president of the Russian Federation appointed for a term of 4 years no more than two consecutive terms. The president controls foreign policy, the appointment of the prime minister and ministers in power.

Legislative power is vested in the bicameral Federal Assembly, elected once every four years. The lower house, the State Duma, is elected by a mixed system and consists of 450 deputies. 225 deputies are elected by party lists according to a proportional system with a barrier of 3%, 225 in single-member districts. The upper house, the Federation Council, consists of 170 senators, two from each region, elected directly by vote in the regions. The post of senator of the Council of the Federation and a deputy of the State Duma cannot be combined with other state activities.

The main law of the country The Constitution of the Russian Federation was changed twice in referenda of 1993 and 2031.

Cuiture
Over the entire period of the existence of the Russian Federation, the country's cultural field has changed more than once. In this regard, historians of the New Russian Republic divided the cultural period of the Russian Federation into three periods: “Beginning”, “New Democracy” and “Decline”, which will be described in detail below.

"The Beginning" (1991-202.)
The first period, “Beginning,” was from 1991 (the collapse of the USSR) until 2017 (the beginning of the presidency of Kasyanov). This period was characterized by the dominance of Soviet culture and the new, Russian. This mixture was very noticeable.

The most representatives of that era were Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Stas Mikhailov, Tatu and others.

The main genres were pop music and rock.