Inspiration I have been thinking about the issue of classical understanding of democracy and of the compliance of that understanding with post-Soviet and Belarusian standards for quite a long time. I decided to write this post after some sort of debate with my friend yesterday. I am writing "just from the site" - from Belarus, which is thought to be "the last dictatorship in Europe". I would like those of you who sincerely believe in Western standards not to consider this post as some kind of "pro-Russian position" or "defending of undemocratic rule", no. Actually, I've never supported the regime and for some time not long ago I even was against it. But maximalismus is gradually being gone and the time for more objective view comes. What I describe here is the reality of modern Belarus that is considered to be a "strangely oppositional spot" on the European democratic continent. Thesis and explanation My thesis is that we, th