This article examined trends and key issues of democratic transformation in the post communist space, in general, and in the Republic of Moldova, in pa-rticular. These changes are of complete and contradictory nature, covering all spheres of social life and first of all the political one. The democratic transformations in the Central and Eastern Europe area are appreciated by the author as a legality for current political theory and pra-ctice. Such regularity is the result of specific trends, which are the subject of this research. One of the key trend of democratic change in the Republic of Moldova is the evolution of the relationship between the general, particular and unique in this transformation. The evolution from general to particular and unique parameters of democ-ratic transformation are in Moldova so contradictory that some general compo-nents of transition (the basic and initiating transformation, its purpose, the pro-cess and the result of transformation) clearly deviated from the planned line. In this aspect the Republic of Moldova is characterized by a progressive particula-rize with both nuance of evolution and stagnant, crisis and even evaluative. As other democratic transformation trends we relate: the relative long and arduous process of transformation; the asymmetric character of the goals of political, economic and territorial transformation, the increasing role of the subjective factor in the democratization process, the increasing role of the civil society in achieving democratic transformation. These and other trends are addressed by the author in terms of specificity for the Republic of Moldova