Democracy is under attack across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia


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Democracy is under attack across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia April 28, 2021 Facebook There are fewer democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia than at any point in the past 26 years, according to a new report from human rights watchdog Freedom House. Elected leaders in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia are undermining the very institutions that brought them to office, rejecting democratic norms and promoting alternative systems of authoritarian governance, according to Nations in Transit, an annual report on the state of democracy in the region from Freedom House, a US-based, organisation...