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Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Supreme Soviet of Russia.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
Prior to 1990, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was head of state of the Russian SFSR but exercised only nominal powers. In contrast to other Soviet republics of the Soviet Union, the Russian SFSR did not have its own Communist Party and did not have its own first secretaries (which in other republics are relatively independent of power) until 1990.