Permanent Instability Of Ukraine’s Political Regime
Permanent Instability Of Ukraine’s Political Regime

Summary/Abstract: An unambiguous assessment of the results of changes in the post-Communist political regime of Ukraine is hardly possible. The political system of this country has experienced both periods of democratic expectations and democratic setbacks during the last fifteen years. For example, in 1990- 1994, before the first competitive parliamentary elections, there was a clear fragmentation among the old (communist) political elite in Ukraine; the country’s first democratic constitution was adopted in 1996. However, after Leonid Kuchma was elected President in 1994, authoritarian tendencies gradually recrudesced, “oligarchic” clans took hold of the country’s political system, and the elections were increasingly blatantly manipulated and rigged to the advantage of the ruling elite.

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