U.S.-based democracy monitor Freedom House has issued its latest Nations In Transit report, titled Confronting Illiberalism.
Here's what they had to say about Ukraine:
Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan present the region’s highest risk of sliding into authoritarianism, the report says.
“While the window for fundamental reforms may not have closed in Ukraine,” the report says, political resistance to anticorruption reforms, attacks on civil society, and the media have seen Ukraine’s democracy score declining for the first time since 2014.
"It was a relatively small decline but it was meaningful and the main cause of the decline is very aggressive pressure on the civil society and on the independent media from government, from leading politicians. It's becoming unfortunately quite normal and standard in Ukraine to accuse civil society actors, NGOs, to accuse media of being antinational and unpatriotic," Nate Schenkkan, project director of Nations in Transit, told RFE/RL.
Read more about the report here.
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