> AFAIK all Baltic states have a minority with limited rights, so they are far from true democracy. Limited rights in the sense of not being able to vote for t

> AFAIK all Baltic states have a minority with limited rights, so they are far from true democracy. Limited rights in the sense of not being able to vote for the parliament, sure. However that isn't unusual at all. In fact, I don't know of any counter example. Do you have an example of a country where non-citizens can vote for the highest form of government? As for local elections, in Estonia both Russian citizens and ethnic Russians without any citizenship are allowed to vote. That is extremely democractic.