Press Review 05/31/14

Official newspapers report on the completion of the spring session of the Milli Majlis and on awarding a number of cultural workers with state awards.

 These newspapers publish answers to the U.S. Ambassador Morningstar for criticizing the authorities of Azerbaijan.

Azadlig writes about the recent arrests on charges of tax evasion. The newspaper regards it as a trap rigged for Tax Minister Fazil Mammadov.

The editor of Ayna-Zerkalo Elchin Shikhlinsky announced the termination of the publication of the newspaper due to financial problems.

The head of the External Relations Department of the Presidential Administration Novruz Mammadov said that the criticism by the U.S. Ambassador Morningstar of the authorities of Azerbaijan is his personal opinion. Experts believe that in this case the U.S. ambassador would be immediately withdrawn.

16 of the 44 banks will be closed because they failed to bring the share capital up to 50 million manat.

"Express" writes that 2 million 500 thousand citizens of Azerbaijan are childless.

Bizim Yol writes that from the beginning of the year five soldiers died during the service.

Yeni Musavat believes that the confrontation between the official Baku and Washington has reached a peak.

The newspaper calls it horrible statistics that over the past two months, the courts sentenced public activists to a total of 145 years in prison.