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Democratisation and Europeanisation of Post-socialist states can be regarded as long-lasting and complex processes. Mainly because of fragmented development of statehood and subordination to external states with distinct nature, post-communist states face transformations which are marked with much wider capacity than classical transitologists expected them to be. According to the emerged situation, it enforces to take more accurate glance at the very specific nature of the post-communist state. The case of Moldova democratisation and europeanization perfectly suits these analytical aspirations. First of all, very weak background of Moldovan state determines emergence of distinct opinions about particular historical-cultural artifacts, statehood and possible trajectories of further state development. Division of opinions not only fragments approach towards national identity, but also exacerbates democratisation and europeanisation processes. Secondly, Moldova lacks not only the experience with statehood, but also faces political and normative heritage of ancient regimes. Because of that there are certain problems of implementing democratic values in Moldova. It means struggle with widespread corruption, as well as with the Soviet-style methods and practices. Namely the legacy of the Soviet system, such as a politically passive and apathetic population, authoritarian political aspirations shading with the formal mechanisms of democracy, the weak and poor democratic political culture - all of this undermines the country's democratisation and its European ambitions. Thirdly, Moldova is small post-soviet country, which geopolitically stands in the core of intersection between European Union and Russian interests. Because of that Moldova has to balance between two structural powers and respectively to design its further development path. Thus, the development of Moldova's democratisation and europeanisation is crucially dependent on two competing subjects, namely European Union and Russia, and their capacity to influence Moldova's political processes. In the context of transitology approach case study of Moldova reveals that internal design and external orientation of post-soviet state strongly depends on both, internal and external dynamics. Thus, post-communist transition can be regarded as much more complicated comparing with scholarly efforts to conceptualize transition processes that took place in Latin America or Southern Europe.