Press Review 10/31/14

Official newspapers write about Ilham Aliyev meeting with the delegation of Serbia.

These newspapers publish presidential decree on the application of laws.

Azadlig writes that the representatives of the Ombudsman visited the arrested journalist of the newspaper Azadlig Seymour Hazy, and convicted members of the movement NIDA.

The head of the Popular Front Party Ali Kerimli condemned the administrative detention for 25 days of an employee of the newspaper Azadlig Khalid Garayev.

The American magazine National Interest believes that the corrupt and unjust regime in Azerbaijan "can cause amplification of religious extremism in the country.

The World Bank report on the conditions of doing business said that Azerbaijan takes the 150^th place among 190 countries on building permits, the 159^th place on the electrification of constructed objects, and the 166^th place on the crossing of goods across the border. Experts believe that all of this is an indicator of the level of corruption and monopoly in the country.

Express

The Caucasian Muslims Office denies the existence of confrontation with the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations.

And the head of the State Committee Mubariz Gurbanli accused the Iranian Sahar TV channel of the continuation of anti-Azerbaijani propaganda.

Echo

Employment in the construction sector increased 53.6% and the salary for 5 years increased by 36%. The growth was provided by large enterprises.

Yeni Musavat, referring to the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, reported that Anar Mammadov, the son of the Minister of Transport Ziya Mammadov, ordered the murder of a man in Turkey for 500 000 dollars.

The newspaper writes about bank fraud in issuing loans to farmers. If a farmer subscribes to receive 20 thousand manat, he gets only a total of 15 thousand. In addition, he has to pay another 2-3 thousand manat for a motorcycle that the Ministry of Agriculture obliges the farmers to get.