Reporters Without Borders: Armenian ranks 77 in press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders published the Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007, an index measuring the level of press freedom in 169 countries throughout the world.
It was compiled on the basis of surveys and researches conducted by journalists, human rights activists and lawyers.
The authors of the report took into consideration freedom of printing media, television and Internet.
Armenia ranks 77, Georgia - 66, Azerbaijan - 139.
Russia (144th) is not progressing, the report says.
Turkey (101st) is the region's only country where a journalist was murdered. Hrant Dink, the editor of Agos Armenian-Turkish newspaper, was gunned down in January by radical nationalists.
It was compiled on the basis of surveys and researches conducted by journalists, human rights activists and lawyers.
The authors of the report took into consideration freedom of printing media, television and Internet.
Armenia ranks 77, Georgia - 66, Azerbaijan - 139.
Russia (144th) is not progressing, the report says.
Turkey (101st) is the region's only country where a journalist was murdered. Hrant Dink, the editor of Agos Armenian-Turkish newspaper, was gunned down in January by radical nationalists.
