| Summary/Abstract |
THE marking of a full 30 years of the post-Soviet space, which coincided with a severe global economic crisis and the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, are reason enough to revisit the question of what has happened along Russia's Western borders. Since the early 1990s, the Russian expert community has adopted the Western paradigm of assessing transformation processes as a single model that can be applied at the very least from Tallinn to Chisinau, and at most from Vilnius to Dushanbe. It did not immediately become clear that in analyzing macroeconomic indicators, Western experts "tend to think globally or in regional terms, while studies of national specifics are few and far between, but this is precisely where the devil is."
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