Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine made a stupendous progress on the path of forming democratic bases, as reported by RIA Novosti, Russian permanent representative in the OSCE Permanent Council Alexander Alesxeyev stated addressing the OSCE sitting. At the same time he noted that during the elections in the other states of the former USSR numerous violations of the electoral legislation were fixed, however neither the US nor the EU touched upon this subject. "Why does the matter always concern Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia and other Central-Asian states?"- he wondered. In Alexeyev's words, many of the CIS member-countries made considerable progress on the path of building democracy, however the OSCE often passes over it in silence. As an example of the unequal attitude of the European community to the former USSR states, he presented the fact that "despite mass restrictions of the universal suffrage of hundreds of thousands of the Russian-speaking population of Latvia and Estonia", the elections in these countries have been not discussed at the OSCE Permanent Council.