This article examines some problems regarding the Ukraine’s party system. It underlines that the multiparty phenomenon in the post soviet area has its own tendencies of emergence and development, as well as special particularities of the national multiparty system. A special attention is given to the fact that Ukraine has a huge number of political parties, hard competition for the political power, low social base of many party and some problems of the ideological identification, all these conditioning the party functionality and the quality of the political arena of the country. The article proposes some recommendations and suggestions to improve the political parties’ activity.