MOSCOW. Jan 25 (Interfax) - The adoption by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) of a resolution condemning the crimes of communist totalitarian regimes will hit Russia, Political Studies Institute Director Sergei Markov said.

"PACE interests are obvious. The first is to hit Russia, which is the legal successor of communist USSR. The resolution does not exist by itself. It will give an ideological basis to sue Russia," he told Interfax on Wednesday.

Moreover, the adoption of the resolution will be an "attempt to strengthen non-democratic post-Soviet regimes in Latvia, Estonia, Georgia and Ukraine based on the legitimacy of anticommunism," he said.

"The resolution should lay ideological grounds for the absence of democratic changes in these countries and will hit their democracies," the political expert said.

As of today, communism does not constitute a threat to the existing world order and that is why PACE has to deal only with the past, Markov said.