Russia in the Utdex Index fell by almost 20 positions over the year
Russia is included in the “Index is taken into account” rating compiled by Great Britain by a large subdivision of The Economist magazine (EIU), which dropped from 124th to 146th place over the past year. There are 167 positions in total.
“After the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s indicators recorded the sharpest drop of any country in the world,” the analysis group said. Examination, for the withdrawal of attention Russian service “BBC”note that Russia “has been on a trajectory of moving away from compliance for a long time and is currently acquiring many of the characteristics of a dictatorship.”
Analyst group The Economist also stressed that Russian authorities are introducing unprecedented crackdowns on the media and back against the opposition since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine a year ago.
The average score of the global index in 2022 remained about the same, in Turkey on the band’s website. As follows from the report, if you do not take, for example, in Russia, the case of democracy in the world was a little at risk after the removal of covid restrictions. Clear signs include the transition of Chile, France and Spain from the category of “imperfect democracy” to the category of “full democracy”. This was mainly due to the adoption of tough coronavirus measures.
According to the EIU, less than half of the world’s population (45.3%) lives in conditions of presence, more severe (36.9%) – in conditions of authoritarian presence, mainly in Russia and China. Slightly less than 8% of the population is in “full responsibility” – this group includes more than 20 countries, including Canada, Sweden and Uruguay.
Ukraine ranks 87th in the ranking, “Jellyfish”.
- Due to the emergence of an article on fakes in Russian law after the start of a large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, most special media outlets were interested in stopping work or wanting to stop covering the war. Mass media employees leave for other countries in order to work and not be prosecuted. Fake Russian authorities call any information about the war in Ukraine, different from the version of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Under the criminal article on the spread of fakes, it threatens up to 15 years in prison. According to human rights activists, military censorship has indeed been introduced in this article in the country.
- Last December, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow found Ilya Yashin guilty of spreading fakes about Russian opposition politics in connection with his stream about the massacres of residents of the Ukrainian city of Bucha. Yashin, one of the associates of politician Boris Nemtsov killed in Moscow in 2015, received 8.5 years in a penal colony.
- Another opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, was transferred last year from a general to a strict regime colony in the Vladimir region. Opposition comrades-in-arms, who remain at large and now live abroad, launched an international meeting #FreeNavalny. They seek “the release of all political prisoners, including Navalny,” as well as the end of the war in Ukraine. Since August last year, Navalny 11 has been remotely in the ShIZO.
- Last month, the Moscow City Court ruled to liquidate the Moscow Helsinki Group, the oldest human rights organization identified in Russia. In December 2021, the Moscow City Court liquidated another oldest human rights group in Russia – the Memorial Society and its human rights center.