Describe how public policy is created in Russia today.

The first type of public policy we will talk about in this webpage is called "extraction". All political systems in the world extract resources from their environment. Another example of "extraction" includes the involuntary drafting of young men as soldiers. However, the most common form of resource extraction is taxation.

Russian extraction plays a great role in the country's GDP.

It is possible to go at lengths to talk about material extraction in Russia. But at a glance these are Russia's national resources and potential markets that the Russian government extracts from.