In 2015 UN established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as priorities for further development for
193 member countries. SDGs include 169 targets, which cover all issues of sustainability. Governments
require specific researches to elaborate adequate strategies considering current parameters of social and
economic development of countries. Eastern Partnership countries and the Russian Federation are classified
as countries in transition with not really powerful economies. Therefore it’s very important to increase the
efficiency of expenditures through enhancing institutions. This study attempts to research dependencies
between changes in quality of institutions and SDGs performance for countries in transition. Panel data regression
with offered Composite Index of Sustainable development Goals as dependent variable defines
significance of links and can be used to define priorities in national policies
