I couldn’t identify all the countries which are in positive territory: Moldova, Kosovo, (?), North Macedonia, (?)
Autocracies around the world are getting stronger while democracies are weakening. There is fewer democracies in the world today than 10 years ago. Some of these declines have been noted going back a long time but were ignored and it’s too late
Why do people in Poland and Hungary vote for those who seek to screw them? Have they not learned from their own history where that leads?
Hm, I wasn’t aware of Uzbekistan moving towards democracy. Good to hear, hopefully it’s not just temporary or cosmetic change.
So, only Lithuania, as both a Nation in Transition and a member of the EU, managed to not worsen their democracy?
This graph would be more useful if it displayed the absolute position of each of these countries in the democracy index. Russia and Kazakhstan “only” falling by a little bit doesn’t mean much when they were already in the toilet.
It would have been nice if the country names were added to the image.
I don’t recognize half of the flags and I bet others recognize even less.
Only #2?! Unacceptable! Step aside Poland, Hungary aims for the top spot!
So, the level of democracy in Belarus has dropped by 11 points, while during the last year about 10 people were killed, hundreds were beaten and tortured, about 1 thousand political prisoners, more than 200 public and non-profit organizations were closed, all independent political media were closed and their websites were called extremist, people were kidnapped in the streets and tried for wearing red and white.
So what happened in Poland?
“People voting for parties we don’t like??? Clearly the democracy has failed.”
For a second I thought hungary was the Netherlands, got me scared
Ik how to fix poland. Give less wayyyyyyyy less power to church make them pay taxes and shit
“And in 2021, amid a culmination of concerns over “dividing Europe,” the **three Baltic countries, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovenia** conspicuously scaled back their presence at the latest summit of the 17+1 platform on cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European governments”
👀
Lmao
I have no idea how do they measure it, but Slovakia is far better of than four years ago when it was run by the mafia and oligarchs, who controlled everything from the government to prosecutors and judges in courts.
Most people didn’t even believe that the murders of a journalist would ever be found and punished.
2022 spring will be crucial here i think
Democracy works “fine” in Poland, it’s just most people here are retarded and/or don’t care. PiS was democratically elected, twice in a row, in fair elections. “Democracy score” sounds like such bullshit, lol. The [criticism section on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House#Criticism) is worth looking through.
In Azerbaijan we have democracy if you have money, it is like paid subscription. With right amount of money, you can get brand new Scandinavian democracy right from factory.
Democracy has basically only hurt Armenia at this point
I read “demography” and was genuinely horrified when I read correctly my mood did not improve….
oof, Eastern Europe certainly isn’t looking too well…
Azerbaijan at 0 because it can’t get any lower than that.
Finally we’re good at something 😎
I dislike the idea of Nations in Transit. Why there should be a separate category for this nowadays? It’s been more than 30 years after the end of the Cold War. I mean, Estonia has its overall freedom index as high as Germany and Iceland. Even in this separate democracy score it has the highest number. Just stop grouping us together with Russia or Armenia. We are lightyears ahed of them in freedoms, functioning institutions, while being less corrupt than Ireland or Austria. This Cold War era bs has to go.
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source: https://freedomhouse.org/report/nations-transit/2021/antidemocratic-turn
Based.
I couldn’t identify all the countries which are in positive territory: Moldova, Kosovo, (?), North Macedonia, (?)
Autocracies around the world are getting stronger while democracies are weakening. There is fewer democracies in the world today than 10 years ago. Some of these declines have been noted going back a long time but were ignored and it’s too late
Why do people in Poland and Hungary vote for those who seek to screw them? Have they not learned from their own history where that leads?
Hm, I wasn’t aware of Uzbekistan moving towards democracy. Good to hear, hopefully it’s not just temporary or cosmetic change.
So, only Lithuania, as both a Nation in Transition and a member of the EU, managed to not worsen their democracy?
This graph would be more useful if it displayed the absolute position of each of these countries in the democracy index. Russia and Kazakhstan “only” falling by a little bit doesn’t mean much when they were already in the toilet.
It would have been nice if the country names were added to the image.
I don’t recognize half of the flags and I bet others recognize even less.
Only #2?! Unacceptable! Step aside Poland, Hungary aims for the top spot!
So, the level of democracy in Belarus has dropped by 11 points, while during the last year about 10 people were killed, hundreds were beaten and tortured, about 1 thousand political prisoners, more than 200 public and non-profit organizations were closed, all independent political media were closed and their websites were called extremist, people were kidnapped in the streets and tried for wearing red and white.
So what happened in Poland?
“People voting for parties we don’t like??? Clearly the democracy has failed.”
For a second I thought hungary was the Netherlands, got me scared
Ik how to fix poland. Give less wayyyyyyyy less power to church make them pay taxes and shit
“And in 2021, amid a culmination of concerns over “dividing Europe,” the **three Baltic countries, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovenia** conspicuously scaled back their presence at the latest summit of the 17+1 platform on cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European governments”
👀
Lmao
I have no idea how do they measure it, but Slovakia is far better of than four years ago when it was run by the mafia and oligarchs, who controlled everything from the government to prosecutors and judges in courts.
Most people didn’t even believe that the murders of a journalist would ever be found and punished.
2022 spring will be crucial here i think
Democracy works “fine” in Poland, it’s just most people here are retarded and/or don’t care. PiS was democratically elected, twice in a row, in fair elections. “Democracy score” sounds like such bullshit, lol. The [criticism section on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House#Criticism) is worth looking through.
In Azerbaijan we have democracy if you have money, it is like paid subscription. With right amount of money, you can get brand new Scandinavian democracy right from factory.
Democracy has basically only hurt Armenia at this point
I read “demography” and was genuinely horrified when I read correctly my mood did not improve….
oof, Eastern Europe certainly isn’t looking too well…
Azerbaijan at 0 because it can’t get any lower than that.
Finally we’re good at something 😎
I dislike the idea of Nations in Transit. Why there should be a separate category for this nowadays? It’s been more than 30 years after the end of the Cold War. I mean, Estonia has its overall freedom index as high as Germany and Iceland. Even in this separate democracy score it has the highest number. Just stop grouping us together with Russia or Armenia. We are lightyears ahed of them in freedoms, functioning institutions, while being less corrupt than Ireland or Austria. This Cold War era bs has to go.