Reporters Sans Frontières, or as it is translated, Reporters Without Boarders have released their annual Press Freedom Index for 2010. According to Worldwide Press Freedom Index, Georgia ranks 100's out of 178 counties this year, while Armenia - 101 and Azerbaijan - 152. Comparing to 2009, Armenia and Azerbaijan are making slight progress, they ranked 111(Arm.) and 146(Az.) last year. Meanwhile Georgia lost its 81st place and moved to 100's.
Georgia showed its best in 2007 being 66th. Soon after the short war with Russia it lost its position, and ranked 120th already in 2008.
The leading countries this year were Finland - 1, Iceland - 2 and Netherlands - 3. Turkmenistan ranking 176, North Korea 178 and Eritrea 179, are listed the last. Russia holds 144th position this year.
How the index was compiled?
"The Reporters Without Borders index measures the violations of press freedom in the world. It
reflects the degree of freedom that journalists and news organisations enjoy in each country,
and the efforts made by the authorities to respect and ensure respect for this freedom.
A score and a position is assigned to each country in the final ranking. They are complementary
indicators that together assess the state of press freedom. A country can change position from
year to year even if its score stays the same, and viceversa...."
Well, at least it's ahead of the Armenians.
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