Word: konstitutsiya
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...word in the political debate remains impichment, impeachment, an imported term that Russians were using to mean "vote Yeltsin out." That is a mistranslation of the long legal process by which the U.S. can dismiss a President, but Russian parliamentarians are also vague about the concepts of demokratiya, konstitutsiya and zakonnost (legality). Despite much ostentatious talk of legality, post-Soviet Russia is still a place where the law and its institutions are in flux...
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