A democracy advocacy group says that freedoms across Europe are increasingly under attack by authoritarian¹ 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 chaos³, 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 "dire²" in Belarus, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, which had the lowest scores of the report.

一个民主促进组织说，欧洲各地的自由越来越多地遭受专制国家的侵犯。

总部设在华盛顿的自由之家组织星期二发表一份报告，对中欧和接近欧洲的29个国家进行了评估后，认为其中将近一半国家的民主程度有所降低。

这份报告的项目负责人克拉奇科斯卡说，这些国家的专制政权不断警告本国民众，如果像乌克兰那样实行民主，只能使国家陷于混乱、暴力和贫穷。她指出，要应对这种局面，欧盟及其盟友必须做出更多努力，维护欧洲的民主标准。

自由之家说，由于俄罗斯当局在国内压制不同政见以及在乌克兰制造动乱，其民主程度在2014年出现10年来最大幅度的下滑。

在巴尔干地区七个国家中，四个国家的民主程度降低。在中欧和东欧，只有捷克共和国的民主程度有所提升。

自由之家说，白俄罗斯、土库曼斯坦和乌兹别克斯坦的民主程度被列为最低。