Press Review 02/21/2017

Strengthening the international image of Azerbaijan, criminal prosecution of the newspaper Azadlig, the situation of the poor, looks at the next Cabinet report expected in Parliament, and attitude to the high prices in the country are the leading topics of today's press.

The newspaper Azerbaijan has published an article entitled The Leader of the Region. Against the background of President Ilham Aliyev's participation in the work of the 53^rd Munich Conference on Security, the author speaks of strengthening the international image of Azerbaijan. The author speaks of the progress made over the past 13 years.

Echo has published an article by the title Ration Cards and Food Market Not to Help Poor in Azerbaijan. The financial crisis, which began in 2015, is still ongoing, and the number of poor families is growing.

Azerbaijan has pledged to build a special food market for the poor, but for now it's all in words.

The website Azadliq.info writes about the prosecution of the Azadlig newspaper. An article about it in the newspaper has been written by the chairman of the National Council Jamil Hasanli. Interestingly, Prosecutor General's Office is looking for corruption facts in the editorial of this newspaper, despite the fact that Azerbaijan is one "of the rating" countries in the world in terms of corruption.

Novoye Vremya writes about the empty Cabinet reports. Annual Report of the Government this year will be presented on March 17 by the Prime Minister Arthur Rasizadeh.

The website Musavat.com has published comments by MP Fazil Mustafa of the dismissal of the Minister of Transport Ziya Mammadov. He does not think it is a personnel reform. According to the MP, today the most serious reform is ASAN Service.