自由之家:歐洲民主自由程度降低

A democracy advocacy group says that freedoms across Europe are increasingly under attack by authoritarian states.

In a report released Tuesday, the Washington-based Freedom House assessed 29 countries across Central Europe and Eurasia, and said nearly half suffered downgrades in their democracy scores.

Project director for the report, Sylvana Habdank-Kolaczkowska, said "Eurasia's authoritarian regimes tirelessly warn their people that moves toward democracy as seen in Ukraine can only end in chaos, violence, and poverty."

She said to counter such measures, the EU and its allies must do more to uphold democratic standards within Europe.

Freedom House says Russia earned its largest rating decline in a decade in 2014 because of suppressing dissension at home and seeking to destabilize Ukraine.

In the Balkans, four out of seven countries registered declines, including Montenegro and Serbia for threats to media independence. In Central and Eastern Europe, the only country to register an overall score improvement was the Czech Republic.

Freedom House said conditions remain "dire" in Belarus, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, which had the lowest scores of the report.一個民主促進組織說，歐洲各地的自由越來越多地遭受專制國家的侵犯。

總部設在華盛頓的自由之家組織星期二發表一份報告，對中歐和接近歐洲的29個國家進行了評估後，認爲其中將近一半國家的民主程度有所降低。

這份報告的項目負責人克拉奇科斯卡說，這些國家的專制政權不斷警告本國民衆，如果像烏克蘭那樣實行民主，只能使國家陷於混亂、暴力和貧窮。她指出，要應對這種局面，歐盟及其盟友必須做出更多努力，維護歐洲的民主標準。

自由之家說，由於俄羅斯當局在國內壓制不同政見以及在烏克蘭製造動亂，其民主程度在2014年出現10年來最大幅度的下滑。

在巴爾幹地區七個國家中，四個國家的民主程度降低。在中歐和東歐，只有捷克共和國的民主程度有所提升。

自由之家說，白俄羅斯、土庫曼斯坦和烏茲別克斯坦的民主程度被列爲最低。