Sewage infrastructure of the capital, the state of foreign trade, the problems with mandatory health insurance, and the increased risk of not returning loans are the leading topics of today's press.
The Azerbaijan newspaper writes about problems with rainwater sewerage in the capital and that the President took control of the matter. The author evaluates the document signed by the Head of State in this regard. A working group is to address the issues. The article recalls the torrential rains of October are not so typical for Baku.
The website Azadliq,info has published an article entitled "Visible and invisible hand of the export markets of Azerbaijan." The expert Rovshan Agayev explores the level of exports. So, for 9 months of 2015 the country's non-oil exports amounted to 1.2 billion dollars. For the same period of this year this figure fell to 887 million dollars, or by 313 million dollars, or 26%.
Echo published an article entitled "Compulsory health insurance in Azerbaijan - a feeding trough for corrupt officials," saying that Azerbaijan continues to use the health care financing system, which was used in the days of the Soviet Union. However, in today's realities, such a system has long lost its relevance. We need a system of mandatory health insurance (MHI).
However, this system in the country does not work in spite of the annual government promises that everything is ready and already this year MHI will cover all citizens.
Some countries, which do not operate MHI, either, have found some other way to solve the problem, namely the allocation of a sum of money for each citizen's health, instead of mindless financing of beds in hospitals. The allocated money can be spent in both the public and private clinic, signing an agreement with the doctor. Perhaps, this experience could be useful in Azerbaijan, and it would bring us positive results.
The website Musavat.com writes that the reduction of the manat rate increases the risk of the return of loans. The expert Gubad Ibadoglu believes necessary the allocation of additional funds from the state budget of 2017 for compensation for the costs created by inflation, indexation of benefits, pensions and wages, as well as for benefits to pay dollar-denominated loans.
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Variable cloudiness is expected in Baku and Apsheron peninsula on Sunday, 28 July.
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As part of the struggle against illegal migration in Baku city, operative actions were carried out at different addresses. The Interior Ministry reports that employees of the Department for Combating Illegal Migration identified and detained 34 foreigners without documents giving the right to reside and stay on the territory of Azerbaijan.
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On July 25, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense accused Armenia of "provoking" by deploying heavy weapons in Kalbajar and quadcopters in the Tovuz direction. The ministry also expressed dissatisfaction and concern over Armenia's military cooperation with Western countries.
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During the operation of the Main Drug Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 5 members of an organized group engaged in drug trafficking were detained. All of them have previous convictions: Bahlul Ismayilov, Royal Aliyev, Khayal Aliyev, Samir Aghayev, and Ali Mammadli.
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