POLITICAL REGIME IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA: PERIODS OF TRANSFORMATION AND INDICES OF DEMOCRACY

Abstract

The article deals with the formation and systematized criteria of democracy indices during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin. The author used the rating Tatu Vanhanen, whereby the calculated indices of democracy in certain periods of transformation of the political regime in post-Soviet Russia. The author offered an original chart the changes in relation to democracy indicators of its dynamics in modern Russia. Analyzed as a specific factor for oil prices impact on the indices of democracy in the post-Soviet Russia.

Keywords

• политический режим
• демократия
• критерии развитости демократии
• рейтинг демократии
• индексы демократии
• корреляция уровня демократии и цены на нефть