Armenia proved in the category of the countries with semi-consolidated authoritarian regime in the Nations in Transit 2013 - Freedom House's comprehensive, comparative study of democratic development in 29 countries from Central Europe to Eurasia. This edition covers the period from January 1 through December 31, 2012 and measures progress according to the following indicators: electoral process, civil society, independent media,
national democratic governance, local democratic governance, judicial framework and independence, and corruption.
The democracy score of Armenia is 5.36 in the ratings based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 7 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a given year.
Along with Ukraine (4.86), Georgia (4.75) and Kyrghyzstan (5.96) proved in the transitional category where the leaderships of Ukraine and Georgia are qualified as 'transitional governor or hybrid regime' and the leaderships of Armenia and Kyrghyzstan as 'semi-consolidated authoritarian regime.'
In 2012 Russia proved in the categories of authoritarian regimes with 6.21 democracy score. Democracy score of Azerbaijan is 6.64. Belarus received 6.71, Kazakhstan - 6.57, Tajikistan - 6.25, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan by 6.93. The governments of the given countries are qualified as consolidated authoritarian regime.
*Starting with the 2005 edition, Freedom House introduced separate analysis and ratings for national democratic governance and local democratic governance, to provide readers with more detailed and nuanced analysis of these two important subjects.