Boyko O. Peculiarities of the Ukraine's Party System Transformation for the Years of Independence.

Complex research of the peculiarities of the Ukraine's party system transformation process for the independence years is made. Main tendencies, forms and means of the political parties activities in Ukraine during the defined chronological period, and especially, nowadays are analyzed. The specific character of the party and election system interaction in Ukraine was determined. The contradictions and disadvantages of the elections and parties legislation in Ukraine were discussed. The influence of the parliamentary elections in 1998 and 2002 on changes in the party system of Ukraine was analyzed, the tendencies and the perspectives of its further development were determined. There was suggested a periodical division of the process of the formation and development of the multiparty system in the Ukrainian society, and there also were defined the peculiarities, problems and factors influencing the process.