FREEDOM HOUSE: ARMENIA REGISTERS IMPROVEMENT

Panorama.am
30/04/2010

Freedom House independent, international watchdog organization,
published Thursday the annual report on Freedom of the Press 2010:
A Global Survey of Media Independence. Armenia is ranked among the
not free states.

Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Slovenia have free media in the region,
while Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Ukraine and Georgia are
reported as partly free.

Turkey is ranked among partly free countries, while Iran is not free.

Ukraine, Armenia, and Moldova registered slight improvements, the
report says. Control of the media and restrictions of the free flow
of information have declined in Armenia, the score shows 66 instead
of the previous 68.