ARMENIA ALONG WITH ALGERIA
Support A1+!Press in Armenia is not free. Freedom House has issued its annual report, in which Armenian press is rated as “Not Free” in 2003-2004.
Freedom House’s annual press freedom survey has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. Now covering 194 countries and territories, Freedom of the Press: A Global Survey of Media Independence provides numerical rankings and rates each country’s media as “Free,” “Partly Free” or “Not Free.” This year the organization rated the press of 75 countries as “Free”, 50 as “Partly Free,” and 69 as “Not Free”. Out of 27 states of the former USSR and Central and Eastern Europe (including Armenia) press in not free in 10 states, free in 8 states and partly free in 9 states. Russia and Azerbaijan are rated as “Not Free”, Georgia as “Partly Free”. In the Baltic states press is free.
According to the report, Armenia’s rating makes 64 points. To note, last year Armenia occupied the 135th position. In 2005 it is one point higher and shares the 134th with Algeria.
