International free and fair election instruments developed by UN and OSCE

After collapse of USSR, the international society confronted with a complicated challenge.After this, free and fair election standards became an essential component to establishing ademocratic governments in the new independent states. In order to conduct free and fairelection, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europeelection standards played main role the respectively in the context of international andregional level. The Article briefly describes the importance and significance of mainelements of free and fair elections. The author concluded that international electionstandards should be interpret its domestic laws and practice by states.