Deceptive stability in post-Soviet politics

Igor Taro interprets the good results obtained by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich's Party of Regions in the Ukrainian elections as a misguided desire for stability: "This desire dominates the societies of many CIS states where elections are merely a formality, for example Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. In all these countries the same elite has been in power since 1990. Yet its main goal is not more prosperity for the people. People living in the post-Soviet area need to understand that economic growth is not a result of the alleged stability, but quite the contrary: at a time when the political crisis in Ukraine was at its worst the economy was booming."

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