Baku / 17.07.18 / Turan: The day before, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order to allocate 1 million manat (600 thousand US dollars) for "strengthening the material and technical base of newspapers".
The funds will be allocated from the President's Reserve Fund to the Media Development Support Fund under the President.
A list of newspapers that will receive assistance is not reported. As a rule, governmental or pro-government newspapers, which are supervised by the Public and Political Department of the Presidential Administration, are the beneficiaries of state aid.
The criteria for allocating aid are also unclear. -06D--
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