In 2011, Armenia did not take any significant step in the sphere of democracy and freedom, the Freedom House international human rights NGO’s new report states. And, in the report, Armenia is ranked among the “Partly Free” countries, for ten successive years.  

According to this year’s report, Nagorno-Karabakh, which is among the list of disputed territories, did not register any progress either. Freedom House report characterizes Karabakh as a “Not Free” country where the basic political rights are absent, and the civil liberties are violated.   

In line with the Freedom House report, three post-Soviet states, including Azerbaijan, registered a regression. According to the international NGO, Azerbaijan further dropped its position in 2011 for “arresting opposition activists, dispersing protests, neutralizing international press, and depriving the citizens from their homes for the sake of large-scale urban development projects.”