ARMENIA AGAIN AMONG PARTLY FREE COUNTRIES IN FREEDOM HOUSE’S REPORT
Noyan Tapan
Jan 16 2007
NEW YORK, JANUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. In a regular report of the Freedom
House authoritative human rights organization Armenia already
for the seventh year running has been classed among partly free
countries. Nagorno Karabakh was also classed to the same category.
According to Radio Liberty, among the neighboring states, Turkey
and Georgia have been also classed among the group of partly free
countries. However, Georgia, which was characterized as "one of the
comparatively light spots of CIS" by the international organization
last year, this time has went back by one point both by indices of
political rights and political freedoms.
Azerbaijan is estimated as a non-free country for the fourth year
running, at that, with a tendency of falling back.
Among the CIS states, only the Ukraine has been estimated as
free. According to Chris Walker, the Director of Studies of Freedom
House, after "orange revolutions" a number of elections were held in
that country, and all of them were peaceful, the participants accepted
the results, which is a very rare phenomenon in the CIS territory,
where elections and electoral processes more often have a tendency
of being ruled and being subjected to manipulations."
On the whole, according to Freedom House, 90 countries are free in
the world, 60 are partly free, 43 non-free.