Freedom in the world 2015: No civil liberties in Crimea after annexation
Freedom in Ukraine has improved, while civil liberties are on the decline in Russia. The situation in Russian-annexed Crimea is even worse than in the Russian Federation as a whole. These are the results of the research "Freedom in the World - 2015," published by the international human rights organization Freedom House.
Ukraine's status is "partly free," the general freedom rating is 3 (1 = best, 7 = worst). It is based on two main indicators: political rights and civil liberties. Ukraine's political rights rating rose from 4 to 3. The study authors explain this by improvements in political pluralism, parliamentary elections, and government transparency following the departure of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Russia's status is "not free," the general freedom rating is 6. Civil liberties rating declined from 5 to 6 due to expanded media controls, a dramatically increased level of propaganda on state-controlled television, and new restrictions on the ability of some citizens to travel abroad.
Annexed by Russia, Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, evaluated separately for the first time for Freedom in the World 2015, emerged with a dismal freedom rating of 6.5 on a 7-point scale and a "not free" status, reflecting repressive conditions in which residents-especially Crimean Tatars and others who opposed the forced annexation-were deprived of their political rights and civil liberties.
"The Russian occupation authorities use intimidation and harassment to eliminate any public opposition to the annexation of Crimea and to the current government. The Russian Federal Security Service, the local police, and "self-defense" units made up of pro-Russian residents enforce this political order," states the report.
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what would anyone expect from the soviets? I like putins style, his nationalism to create pride in country-good for soul- and the economy, a little bit more for the people anyway-(I had a ukrainian roommate,born and raised but he said he was russian and he worked at one time for one of the state run conglomerations)but he is part of the russian oligarchy,whoever they are at any given period in their history but they end up always having the most and rule with an iron fist and the russians seem to like it-strange