Armenia is on the second position in the list of the post- Soviet countries by the number of the Schengen visa rejection rate, According to the latest annual report on visa liberalization by Liberal Academy Tbilisi.
According to Democracy & Freedom Watch, the percentage of Schengen visa rejection for the citizens of the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia in 2013 was high in Georgia - 12%, Armenia - 11%, Moldova - 4.8%, Azerbaijan - 4.2%, Ukraine - 1.9%, Russia - 1%, and Belarus - 0.8%.
Thus, the source reports, in 2013, the EU issued 16,298,225 visas around the world. Citizens of Russia, a country of 143 million, received 6,901,421 visas - 42.3 percent of the total. For Eastern Partnership countries, the percentage was: Ukraine (44.7 million people) - 9.6 percent, Belarus (9.5 million) - 4.7 percent, Georgia (4.3 million) - 0.4 percent, Azerbaijan (9.5 million) - 0.36 percent, Moldova (3.5 million) - 0.3 percent and Armenia (3.1 million) 0.2 percent of the visas.