Democracy Index 2022: Russia “represents” many features of dictatorship

Russia recorded the biggest decline in the results of each country in the world in 2022 following Ukraine's invasion and further printing in Russia, according to the annual report of the Index of Democracy. Russia scored 2.28 out of 10, ranking 146th out of 165 states involved in the report. The place “was [...]
The country “has been in a trajectory away from democracy for a long time and is now gaining much of the features of a dictatorship,” said in the report. The narrow ally, Belarus marked a 1.99 note, ranking 153 out of 165, a seven-point shift from the year before.
Referring to Ukraine's large - scale invasion, the report stresses that the <x0 violation of Ukraine's sovereignty from Russia is the product of an imperial mind. The report also found that more than a third of the world's population lives under authoritarian regimes (36.9%), mostly in China and Russia.
Ukraine marked 5.42 out of 10, ranking 87th out of 165, which is a change with one in the ranking from the previous year. Ukraine has been classified as a <x0... hybrid regime” from the index. /abcnews. al












