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​MOLDOVA IS PARTIALLY FREE - FREEDOM HOUSE

29 january, 2015

Development of events in the world in 2014 was exceptionally gloomy. The year was marked by deterioration of situation in respecting rights and ensuring civil freedoms, says the annual report “Freedom in the World”, published on Wednesday by the Freedom House

In total, 195 countries were analyzed in the report, 89 of which were recognized as free, 55 – partially free and 51 – unfree.

Each country was assessed according to two criteria – level of political rights and civil liberty according to a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 is the best result, while 7 – the worst.

Moldova got 3 points on each criterion and was recognized as partially free, along with such post-Soviet countries like Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan.

The average index of freedom in Russia is of 6 points, which means it is an unfree country. To this category belong also Belarus, China, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somali, Chad, South Sudan, Central African Republic.

Among the world’s top freest countries are the USA, Canada, Australia and a number of European countries such as Romania, which has two points both on the level of political rights and civil liberties.

The Transnistria’s index is 6, as in Russia, and it was included in the category of the most non-free countries along with a number of other unrecognized states and the Crimea.

Freedom House analysts called Russia’s invasion into Ukraine one of the most egregious violations of standards of democracy.

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