Russia is a Dictatorship: Rigged elections, pervasive official censorship and Propaganda, closing opposition press and TV stations, killing and imprisoning political opponents, banning demonstrations, etc.
Democracy
federationSince 1993, Russia has been a representative democracy.
It is called an indirect democracy.
Russia is considered to be an illiberal democracy or an authoritarian republic. This means that while there are elections for political leaders, they are more of a joke than a serious political contest between competing political perspectives.
a king and a queen
Russia has some kind of parliamentary/constitutional government with supposedly free elections. It is a federation of the some of the former socialist republics with Russia.An oligarchy with the trappings of a presidential style republic.
1917
It does now. The duma.
According to the Democracy Index, it's in the limbo between being a democracy and a dictatorship (similar to Russia).
Relations between Russia and Western nations have improved
When the Soviet Union lost power in 1991, Russia abandoned it's socialist government and turned to democracy and took up the title of the Russian Federation.
Like Russia does