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For 17 years straight, as measured by Freedom House’s annual Nations in Transit report, the strength of democracy in Europe and Eurasia has been in decline. To say 2020 did democracy no favors in the former Soviet space is an understatement. But for the countries we cover here at Crossroads Asia, it’s hard to remark on declines when there’s little room to sink further.
Since 1995, Freedom House has annually published an assessment of democracy in 29 states stretching from Central and Eastern Europe to Central Asia. The report scores each state on seven categories that serve to represent the “institutional underpinnings of liberal democracy” national and local democratic governance, electoral process, civil society, independent media, judicial framework and independence, and corruption and averages those scores to arrive at the country’s “democracy score.” The scores are based on assessments by the authors of individual country reports, a panel of