Russia is a "Semi-Presidental" Republic, consisting of both a president and a prime minister. Russia first became communist in 1918 as the Russia Socialist Democratic Labour Party, but it quickly became the USSR and formalized as the commie red in 1952. After the fall of USSR, Russia slowly transform to a republic.
Communism, which is often associated with "socialism," is actually what Bernie Sanders and current "progressive" Democrats are rallying for. And I'm not even accusing them of this, they openly admits it. Socialism is also the form of government the NAZI were running as they were actually called the "German Socialist Worker Party."
This is why people laugh at liberals. They're retards. They're stupid and most of them don't even know they're stupid.
They can't understand anything other than media soundbytes and binary thinking... Democracy! Communist!
America is not a democracy, it is not even a Democratic Republic (like Rome). America is a Constitutional Republic, where the power lies with the constitution and not the elected representatives.
Nothing here I just typed is not taught in basic highschool government and world history course.