The presented analysis indicate that, despite the formal evidence of democratic processes in the post-Soviet countries, real democratic exchange of power does not exist. Processes of power exchange are extremely marginalized or even eliminated through a variety of mechanisms, i.a. extending president’s office terms, abolition of constitutional limit on the number of tenure, falsification of elections and a permanent effort to isolate real opposition. What is interesting, however, is that the procedure of elections have been never abandoned, keeping up appearances, but not standards of democracy and political pluralism.