International organization " Despite the war and restrictions on the dissemination of information, Ukraine has risen in the ranking from 106th to 79th place in a year, Meduza reports..

Russia in the 2023 ranking took 164th place out of 180. Although last year she was on the 155th line.

The report of the organization states that Ukraine after February 24, 2022 was " At the same time, propaganda continues to intensify in Russia..

Norway has been recognized as the country where the media enjoy the greatest freedom for the seventh year in a row..

Next in the ranking are Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Estonia.

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Recall, on April 26, Ukrainian reporter Bogdan Bitik, who helped the correspondent of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica Corrado Zunino to cover the war in Ukraine, died from sniper shots in the suburbs of Kherson. Zunin himself was wounded in the shoulder, but survived. Reporters fired at near Antonovsky bridge. It is still impossible to evacuate the body of the deceased journalist due to the work of Russian snipers.