Media Review for December 30

The newspaper Azerbaijan writes that the entrepreneurs affected by the pandemic will be provided with material assistance in two directions. First, it assumes partial payment of salaries to employees. This measure will cover about 22 thousand taxpayers, and more than 200 thousand employees will be paid partial salaries. The state will allocate 52.5 million manats for these purposes.

Secondly, financial support will be provided to individual entrepreneurs working in areas affected by the pandemic. This measure provides for the allocation of financial support in the amount of 30.5 million manats and will affect about 90 thousand entrepreneurs.

The website Redaktor.az writes about the incident on December 27 near Hadrut, where a group of Armenian soldiers was destroyed. It is possible that this was an attempt to conduct a partisan war in the rear of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

The Yenisabah.az website is discussing the possibility of purchasing the Chinese Sinovac vaccine against coronavirus, which has been successfully tested. More than a hundred countries have already ordered it. As noted in the article, Indonesia and Turkey have so far been the countries with the highest vaccine efficacy rates and 500 million doses of the vaccine have already been produced to secure orders, according to the vaccine manufacturer.

The website Bizimyolinfo.az writes that armed Armenians are stationed in Agdere, Khojavend and several villages surrounding Shusha through the Lachin corridor. It is the "peacekeepers" who contribute to this.

An indirect confirmation of this is the words of the new head of the NK separatists, Vitaly Balasanyan. The author believes that Russia does not want a peace agreement to be signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Therefore, it is necessary to start an anti-terrorist operation, and a legal basis has already been created for this. If Armenia and Russia cannot fulfill their obligations, then the Lachin corridor should be closed, and peacekeepers should only monitor the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.