Nations in Transit 2019
Russia
7
100
DEMOCRACY-PERCENTAGE Democracy Percentage | 7.14 100 |
DEMOCRACY-SCORE Democracy Score | 1.43 7 |
Last Year's Democracy Percentage & Status
7
100
The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a given year. The Democracy Percentage, introduced in 2020, is a translation of the Democracy Score to the 0-100 scale, where 0 equals least democratic and 100 equals most democratic.
See the methodology.

- Civil Society score improved from 1.75 to 2.00. While civil society remains in the government’s crosshairs, protests at the national and local levels—particularly around the issue of pension reforms—breathed new life into Russia’s third space in 2018. However, new legal restrictions on free assembly were put in place, while activists braved state violence in the course of their work


Country Facts
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Global Freedom Score
19 100 not free -
Internet Freedom Score
23 100 not free