Press Review - 03/07/15

Official newspapers continue to publish extensive articles on the European Games.

Azadlyg considers representation of the Azerbaijani government at the reception at the US Embassy on the occasion of the US Independence Day at the level of Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports as a demarche against the US government.

Experts predict a new devaluation of the manat after the November parliamentary elections.

The Ministry of Taxes will not be able to fulfill the obligation to ensure revenues in the amount of 7 billion manats, for hundreds of entrepreneurs, not being able to pay their assessed fines, close their facilities.

Azerbaijani judokas explain their poor performance at the European Games with the lack of adequate conditions for training. Thus, they indirectly blamed the Judo Federation President, former Labor Minister Fizuli Alekperov, for failure in judo at the European Games.

Express focuses on the supply of Russian rockets Iskander to Armenia.

According to the newspaper, the cars registered in the regions of Azerbaijan will be allowed entry to Baku only at night.

At the same time it is unclear how long this limitation will continue.

Farmers say that because of the drought fruit this season will be less than normal, and prices will be higher.

Echo reports of the impending increase in the cultivation of saffron in Azerbaijan, which will generate revenue of 10 million manats per ton.

Real incomes have fallen by 25-30%. This trend will continue until the end of the year.

Novoye Vremya, analyzing the economic situation in the country, concludes that "the Azerbaijani economy does not expect the best of times."

Bizim Yol gives a statement of the Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Pakayin that the main target of the Islamic State in the Caucasus is Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani banks are going to collapse. This statement is based on the pessimistic forecasts of the international rating agencies.

Yeni Musavat writes that lobbying the authorities in Europe and America has failed. The responsibility for this will be laid on the Minister of Transport Ziya Mammadov, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Head of the Committee for Work with Diaspora Nazim Ibrahimov.

Experts believe that the list of candidates of the ruling party Yeni Azerbaijan in the upcoming parliamentary elections will be upgraded by 70 per cent.

Tural Mustafayev, on the basis of the complaint of which the journalist Khadija Ismayilova was arrested, said that he was forced to testify against her under pressure from the Baku Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of National Security.  -0-