Moldova takes the 64th position in the 2011 democracy index of the Economist Intelligence Unit. Compared with the rankings for 2010, Moldova climbed two spots, but has the same score of 6.33, Info-Prim Neo reports. Moldova is on the same spot as Serbia. It is outstripped by such countries as Mali, Paraguay and El Salvador. Moldova is followed by Papua New Guinea. It has yet the best rating among the CIS countries. Romania ranks 59th, while Ukraine – 79th. The United States and Russia are at different extremes. The U.S. is the 19th, while Russia – the 117th. In a roundtable meeting, Doctor of Philosophy Pantelimon Varzari, the head of the Political Sciences Department of the Academy of Sciences’ Institute of European Integration and Political Sciences, said that the political-constitutional crisis faced by Moldova in 2009–2012 overshadowed many other problems of public interest and affected and confused the people. According to Pantelimon Varzari, the persistent crisis is fueled by the lack of democratic traditions and democratic political culture, the delay in reforms and thus the government is inefficient, civil society is not active, society is polarized and the so-called ‘middle class’ is missing. In the countries with democratic traditions, the ‘middle class’ consists of a significant part of people who ensure political stability and the democratic alternation in power of the political forces. Pantelimon Varzari considers that a democratic system can function normally if there are appropriate democratic institutions and government forms, responsible political parties, well-informed voters, and when as many people as possible take part in elections. The roundtable meeting “Political crisis and constitutional crisis: impact on society” was organized by the Institute of European Integration and Political Sciences.