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Reporters without borders: "Azerbaijan lags behind Armenia and Georgia in the sphere of freedom of speech"

22 October 2008 [12:50] - TODAY.AZ
The organization "Reporters without borders" has released its next report on the freedom of speech in the world.
Day.Az reports with reference to Azadlyg radio that Azerbaijan is ranking 150th among 173 countries.

In line with the report, Azerbaijan is the last among the South Caucasus countries. Thus, Armenia is 88th and Georgia is 120th on this list.

The best situation with freedom of speech is in Iceland, Luxembourg and Norway and the worst in Eritrea (in Africa's northeast) under the report. It is followed by North Korea and Turkmenistan.

Ukraine is leading among the CIS countries on the list.

/Day.Az/
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