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Crimea, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan ‘least free places in Europe’

by OC Media

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Crimea, South Ossetia, and Azerbaijan have been ranked the least free places in Europe, in the latest edition of American rights group Freedom House’s Freedom in the World report. The report measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights across the world. Countries and territories were ranked on a scale from 0 to 100, with 0 being least free and 100 most free. In the Caucasus, Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia, and Nagorno-Karabakh were all rated ‘partly free’ scoring 64, 45, 41,

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Nagorno-Karabakh votes in favour of constitutional changes

by OC Media

•2 min read

Eighty-eight percent of eligible voters — 69 540 people — in the de facto Republic of Nagorno Karabakh voted to approve draft constitutional reforms in a referendum on 20 February. Once the results come into force, Karabakh will transition into a presidential system of government, and will change its name to the Republic to Artsakh. According to preliminary results from the Central Election Commission, turnout for the vote was 76% (79,428 people). Of these, 69,540 (88%) voted in favour of t