Press Review 12/19/14

Official newspapers write about Ilham Aliyev's participation in the opening ceremony of the ships Muslim Magomayev and Lankaran.

The same newspaper published an article by MP Huseynbala Miralamov, who accuses independent NGOs of treason.

Azadlig publishes a warning from a US official Tom Malinowski that the situation with the strangulation of civil society in Azerbaijan could jeopardize relations between Azerbaijan and the United States.

The health status of the chairman of the Islamic Party Movsum Samedov transferred into the Gobustan prison deteriorated and he has severe pain in the heart.

The newspaper said that a week ago the head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev left for medical treatment in Germany.

Express writes that the Parliament will consider the issue of surrogacy.

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In Azerbaijan, 200-300 settlements are in the landslide zone.

Bizim Yol writes that the ground beneath the former hotel Cenub Hotel was put up for auction for only 38 thousand manat. At the auction there was only one participant. Shareholders of this hotel demolished in the center of Baku two years ago believe that they were just robbed and are preparing for litigation.

Yeni Musavat writes that the newly appointed US Ambassador to Azerbaijan has a task to unite Azerbaijani opposition. The newspaper calls it a change in tactics of Washington against Baku.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe demands official Baku should release the leader of REAL Ilgar Mamedov from prison.

The paper argues that the decline of the Russian ruble has led to a sharp decrease in the number of customers in the shopping centers Bina and Sadarak.