ARMENIA 79TH ON "STATE OF WORLD LIBERTY" FREEDOM RATING
Yerevan, August 7. ArmInfo. Armenia is 79th on the State of World
Liberty’s 159-country "Freedom Map": freedom index from personal
to economic freedoms, based on surveys by The Heritage Foundation,
Wall Street Journal, Frasier, Cato, Freedom House and Reporters
Sans Frontieres.
The freest region of the world is Europe – 70.49 points. Half of the
top ten countries are from Europe. The freest country is Estonia –
85.25 points.
Lithuania is 16th, Latvia is 21st. The other CIS countries are
outside top 50: Georgia is 58th, Armenia 79th, Ukraine 87th and
Moldova 93rd. Russia is 124th with 42.07 points near Central African
Republic and Egypt. The least free countries of the CIS are Uzbekistan,
Belarus and Turkmenistan – 152nd, 153rd and 154th.
Many exerts are skeptical about the rating and do not consider it as
professional as few people know anything about State of World Liberty,
reports Delfi.