Democracy in Azerbaijan has lessened - Freedom House

On April 4, the international human rights organization Freedom House publish

ed its report "Transition Countries 2017", which analyzes the situation with democracy in the countries of Central Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Eurasia. The countries are estimated on a seven-point scale.

The highest score was rated 1 point, the worst - 7 points. Azerbaijan received 7 points on the level of suffrage, the state of civil society, independent media, democratic governance, independence of the judiciary.

Only according to local democratic governance Azerbaijan received 6.5 points. As a result, the level of democracy in Azerbaijan is estimated at an average of 6.93 points. Last year it was 6.86. The neighbors of Azerbaijan - Georgia and Azerbaijan received respectively 4.61 and 5.39 points. In five of the 12 countries in the region, the corruption situation has worsened. At the lowest level are Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. "Freedom House" also points out that the non-settlement of the conflict can increase the risks of wars. At the beginning of the year shootings intensified in the east of Ukraine, tensions between Kosovo and Serbia increased. Armenia and Azerbaijan suffered the most losses during the escalation of the conflict in April 2016. -03D06-