Is there an institutional change in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union? Historical institucionalism approach.

The collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to the modern Russian state, but can we speak of institutional change in this case? This paper focuses on institutional issues in Russian domestic and foreign policy, using the example of Russian parliamentarianism and the role of post-Soviet international organizations. It seeks to answer the question of the real significance of institutional changes in Russia after the collapse of the USSR. Russian parliamentarianism today occupies the same marginal position in the political system as the parliament in the Soviet Union, which means that the change made after 1991 was only cosmetic. In the case of foreign policy, institutions such as the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Collective Security Treaty Organization serve only to maintain Russian influence in the post-Soviet space. De facto, the new institutions have replaced the Soviet ones and are not a real attempt at institutional change.