Press Review 07/02/15

Official newspapers publish an interview with the Minister of Youth and Sports Azad Rahimov on the results of the European Games, as well as the order of the Head of State on awarding a group of employees of the Interior Ministry and the allocation of 4.5 million manats for the construction of roads in the Tovuz region.

Azadlyg writes that the OSCE Office in Baku rejected the official Baku’s demand to leave the country and recalled that the duration of the office ends on December 31 of this year.

Employees of the Land Committee combined with the State Property Committee in February this year have still not been paid.

During the European Games Baku was visited by 28 thousand tourists, which was 5, 10 and 30 times less than during the Olympic Games in Sydney, Beijing and London, respectively.

Forty days passed after the fire in the 16-storey building in the Binagadi district of the capital, but the perpetrators of the incident have not yet been punished.

Bizim Yol says the cause of traffic jams in Baku is not cars from provinces, but the deplorable state of the transport infrastructure.

The newspaper writes that in Jail №13 prisoners are held in cells without ventilation and the barracks contain 130 people each.

A group of young people announced an action in social networks with a call for supplying the subway cars with air conditioning.

Yeni Musavat writes that the loan scandal in the International Bank of Azerbaijan has already reached the most "major figures". Thus, the Director of General Construction Company Jamal Hasanov has been arrested.

The head of the construction company RUM Imran Huseynov is wanted on fraud charges.