The report also addresses the situation of political rights and civil liberties in Armenia and Artsakh. Just like in 2017, this year Armenia was<\/a> among \u201cpartly free\u201d countries. On a 7-point scale, where 7 is the negative and 0 is the positive index, Armenia has 4.5 points. Moreover, the political freedoms in Armenia are in worse condition than the civil liberties.\u00a0 In particular, on the same scale of 7, the civil liberties in Armenia had 4 points, while political freedoms received 5 points (1 point lower).<\/p>\n 2017 Elections: A Democratic Decline<\/strong><\/p>\n The report<\/a> touches upon 2017 parliamentary elections in Armenia. Accordingly, unfair elections showed the continued decline of election-related democratic norms in Armenia. According to \u201cFreedom House\u201d, the ruling party resorted to harassment of the opposition, intimidation of voters, and abuse of administrative resources in order to keep power.<\/p>\n Moreover, according to the report, electoral violations in Armenia contradict Armenia’s aspiration to deepen relations with the European Union, with which it signed the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement in November 2017.<\/p>\n Nagorno Karabakh<\/strong><\/p>\n The report also addresses Nagorno Karabakh in the “disputed territories” section. In this case, the rating has remained unchanged. On a 7 point-scale, Artsakh has<\/a> 5 points, equally bad political and civil liberties, and the “partly free” status. Thus, according to the human rights organization, freedom in Nagorno-Karabakh is less protected than in Armenia but more than in Azerbaijan. Among other unrecognized republics of the region, Abkhazia is also “partly free”, while Crimea, South Ossetia and Transnistria are “not free”.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/uic.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/graphic1.jpg\")
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