... where elections would be held after 2 years, as such elections were held in December of 1995 and the communist party obtained the largest amount of seats. As a result the new communist leaders launched a reshuffle within parliament with the pro-Western foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev being sacked, and in January ... stating that declaring the end of the Soviet Union was an illegal act. President Yeltsin quickly moves to draft a decree to outlaw the communist party however this paper is never issued. Since its introduction in 1993 the State Duma had appeared to be highly influential in ...

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... The three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- all have very similar historical backgrounds having some sort of democratic institutions present previous to the establishment of the communist rule in the region. All three entered the transition period after the fall of communism and moved towards constitutionalising democracy. Although, today all three countries are at similar ... greater involvement in politics. (Freedom House, 2014) Although, cases of corruption like the one of Norbert Wojnarowski who was buying votes for a favoured candidate of his by bribing party del...

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