Superpresidential

… after President Boris Yeltsin dissolved parliament in September 1993 and won a referencum on a new constitution that eliminated the previous sustem of checks and balances in favor of a new superpresidential order.

The superpresidential regime is therefore not stable; it can drift in any direction—changing its rhetoric, its goals, its balance of forces, and its major ideas.

The 1993 Russian Constitution is frequently described as “superpresidential” because of the considerable powers it gave to the head of state.