Why does the Russian Federation have a Prime Minister and a President?
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Most countries have a head of State (President, Monarch) and a head of government (Prime Minister, Chief Minister).
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The duties of a Prime Minister in a country with an executive President as well, such as France and the Russian Federation, are very different from the duties of a Prime Minister who is also a Chef Executive, such as Britain and others in its tradition. The President in such countries is the Chief Executive, the man in charge. He appoints Ministers to run the various departments of government - Health, Education, Defence and so on. And he appoints someone to be their chairman, to oversee the running of the ministers on his behalf - a Prime (that is, First) Minister. So such a Prime Minister is basically Chairman of the Committee of Ministers, and not the chief executive. He probably has very little formal say over, for example, Foreign Policy (though in the Russian case, Putin has a huge amount of informal say over Medvedev). His responsibility is much more with keeping the machinery running, rather than making the Big Decisions.
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Great Britain, our closest ally, has a Queen and a Prime Minister. Most nations separate out the government bureaucratic paper pushing mongrel who is the Prime Minister from the head of state and foreign receiving person. Why do they, specifically have both? Too many former states would compete with one another for one position, so they made two in order to double their chances.
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It's a common in Europe
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