Comparative analysis of political regimes in Eastern European Countries: correlation of hybrid and authoritarian political practices (1991-2016)

The article is dedicated to comparative analyzing political regimes in Eastern European countries and making correlation of their hybrid and authoritarian political practices in 1991-2016. The researcher used such methods of analysis of political regimes as “Freedom in the World”, “Nations in Transit”, Vanhanen scheme, Democracy Index of “The Economist Intelligence Unit”, project “Polity IV” and so on. As a result it was mapped all received effective data of divergent comparative methods of democracy and autocracy assessment, on the basis of which the author held their correlation in terms of common and distinctive findings and displayed adjacent/coupled design for understanding political regimes in Eastern Europe.