ABSTRACT
This chapter compares discourses on democracy in Russia and Latin America from the point of view of how they define their goals of democratic development. There is clear similarity between the Russian project of sovereign democracy and the diverse Latin American visions of twenty-first century socialism. In both the Russian and the majority of Latin American projects of national democratic development context-dependent interpretations of democratic values play a key part. A major distinction between Russian and Latin American democratic discourses is absolutely different perceptions for Western criticism directed towards their democratic processes. The desire of the Russian Federation to join the list of world powers dooms it to aspire to inclusion within Western democratic discussion. As the transformative impulse of the democratic revolution of the late 1980s and early 1990s was exhausted, individual political liberties were gradually replaced in the Russian discourse by collective ones.
