Place and role of the Eastern European countries in the world political framework

Abstract

The states of the Eastern European region have great geopolitical, geo-strategic and geo-economic interest to the entire international community. The political and economic transformations in the Eastern European countries had systemic character. The reforms in the sphere of economy, politics and even ideology were interdependent. Obvious presence and great volume of the external factor of influence on countries of Eastern Europe definitely determines the specificity of their development; it’s impossible to ignore this external influence upon investigation of political regime transformation mode in these countries. Moreover, the external factor of influence is the principal factor in the process of formation and in the process of transformation of political regimes and entire political systems in countries of Eastern Europe.