Press Freedom (or lack thereof)
A handful of former Soviet republics are mentioned in Jonathan Fryer’s nice summary of the Freedom House presentation to the Association of European Journalists on Thursday (Fryer’s blog focuses mainly on European politics).
Freedom House uses a point system to rank countries’ media independence and categorizes them as “free”, “partly free” or “not free.”
Three guesses as to where Russia landed this year…
See Fryer’s post or the Freedom House site for more info.