ARMENIA PLACED 142ND AMONG 195 COUNTRIES IN PRESS FREEDOM RANKING
May 4, 2007
ARKA
YEREVAN, Freedom House, human rights organization, included Armenia in the list of the countries with restricted freedom of press.
Washington ProFile reports that Armenia is placed 142nd among 195 countries in Freedom House's ranking.
Freedom House points out precipitous deterioration of the situation with media freedom in Latin America countries and former Soviet republics.
The United States shared 17th place with Estonia. Lithuania was placed 29th and Latvia 31st.
Ukraine was 112th and Georgia 120th - both were considered partially free. The remaining post-soviet countries have not free press.
Armenia found itself together with Moldova (144th), Kyrgyzstan (147), Azerbaijan and Russia (164), Kazakhstan and Tajikistan (166), Belarus (186), Uzbekistan (189) and Turkmenistan (191).
Turkmenistan's freedom has outdone only that of South Korea.
Myanmar, Cuba and Libya are topping Freedom House's black books.
Press freedom leaders are Finland and Iceland. They are followed by Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Andorra, Netherlands, New Zealand and Lichtenstein.
German was 16th, Great Britain 31st, France 39th, Poland 46th, Israel 61st, Turkey 105th and Saudi Arabia 178th. China and Iran share 181st rank.
74 countries' media was recognized fully free, 58 states' media partially free and 63 not free.
It means 18% people in the world live in countries with restricted freedom of press, 39% in the countries with partially free media and 43 with restricted. M.V.-0---
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ARKA
YEREVAN, Freedom House, human rights organization, included Armenia in the list of the countries with restricted freedom of press.
Washington ProFile reports that Armenia is placed 142nd among 195 countries in Freedom House's ranking.
Freedom House points out precipitous deterioration of the situation with media freedom in Latin America countries and former Soviet republics.
The United States shared 17th place with Estonia. Lithuania was placed 29th and Latvia 31st.
Ukraine was 112th and Georgia 120th - both were considered partially free. The remaining post-soviet countries have not free press.
Armenia found itself together with Moldova (144th), Kyrgyzstan (147), Azerbaijan and Russia (164), Kazakhstan and Tajikistan (166), Belarus (186), Uzbekistan (189) and Turkmenistan (191).
Turkmenistan's freedom has outdone only that of South Korea.
Myanmar, Cuba and Libya are topping Freedom House's black books.
Press freedom leaders are Finland and Iceland. They are followed by Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Andorra, Netherlands, New Zealand and Lichtenstein.
German was 16th, Great Britain 31st, France 39th, Poland 46th, Israel 61st, Turkey 105th and Saudi Arabia 178th. China and Iran share 181st rank.
74 countries' media was recognized fully free, 58 states' media partially free and 63 not free.
It means 18% people in the world live in countries with restricted freedom of press, 39% in the countries with partially free media and 43 with restricted. M.V.-0---
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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