| Non-democratic State Formation
For further studies, a brief subject should be mentioned. After all of these analyses, it seems
many of the post-Soviet republics suffer from the mutual illness - lack of democratic institutions.
Especially Central Asia as well as some Caucasian countries still have not achieved complete
democratic society even though their constitutions claim the opposite. This puts forward an
important question: can the state formation provided by self-determination right be
non-democratic? Scholars have discussed this question from different perspectives: such as
human rights, collective rights, self-government etc.
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It might seem obvious that, if we are talking about the right to self-determination of people, the
state formation must also be shaped with the form of government that rests its power on
people. But in practice, it is not always that simple.
If we take a look at some post-Soviet leaders from different countries, we can see some mutual
points. The first president of the Russian Federation is Boris Yeltsin who used to be the
chairman and the deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Russia followed by Vladimir Putin who is
currently ahead of the country and used to be a KGB member. In Azerbaijan former president
Haydar Aliyev whose son is currently in power is considered a “great leader” in the country. He
was also First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party. These
examples can continue from Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan. What is important to ask here is
whether can we consider these former Soviet states independent from Russian hegemony
while their leaders have been designated by the Soviet Union once. Is it possible to talk about
self-government while this “self” is not people?
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