TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL REGIMESIN POST-SOVIET BELARUS AND KAZAKHSTAN: STAGES AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT
The article emphasizes the basic definition of a political regime, its main components, and also provides the most common typology of political regimes. The comparative analysis examines the features of changes in political regimes in post-Soviet Belarus and Kazakhstan over the past 30 years, and also analyzes the current state of the political regimes of these countries by comparing them with the general characteristics of democratic political regimes. A short-term forecast is made regarding the possible future state of the political regimes of Belarus and Kazakhstan in the next 3-5 years based on an analysis of the current state of the political regimes of these countries.