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Officially, the Russian Federation is a federal semi-presidential republic, which is not all that dissimilar to a federal presidential democratic republic like the United States.
However, Putin has abused the political system to keep himself in power, and thus has sort of made the unofficial government an authoritarian dictatorship. I do not know that it qualifies exactly as facist, however (simply because I am not a facist expert and do not know every qualification to distinguish it from authoritarian or totalitarian government). I think this is why Wikipedia does not label the Russian Federation as facist, but rather a "federal semi-presidential republic under an authoritarian dictatorship."
This is the exact fascist playbook though. Technically, on paper, the third reich wasn’t a dictatorship either. Just that Hitler and his allies introduced and amended legislature to give him emergency powers, and basically declared a permanent state of emergency (very simplified).
Well as I said, I am not an expert on facism, and it would be ultracrepidarian of me to apply the label definitively when I do not know it well enough.
Guess you should have let someone else answer the question then, huh.