YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 3, ARMENPRESS. Armenia climbed 7 positions to rank 82nd in the 2022 Democracy Index published by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Armenia is classified as “hybrid regime” by EIU.

Neighboring Georgia and Azerbaijan are ranked 90th and 134th respectively.

Turkey is ranked 103rd while Iran is 154th.

According to the EIU, there are still no “full democracies’’ in the region: of the 28 countries, there are 16 “flawed democracies’’ (comprising EU eastern member states and most of the western Balkans), four “hybrid regimes” (Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and Ukraine), and eight “authoritarian regimes” (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia and all of the Central Asian Commonwealth of Independent States member nations).

Speaker of Parliament of Armenia Alen Simonyan commented on the progress in a tweet.

“…Our record in electoral process, pluralism, functioning of government, political participation culture, civil liberties is highest level in region. Armenian government [is]committed to continue democratic reforms to improve life quality for its citizens,” Speaker Simonyan tweeted.