Press Review 18/02/15

Official papers publish a notice of the meeting between Ilham Aliyev and the Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.

Azadlig writes about the deficit of the dollar in exchange offices and publishes expert comments portending instability in the financial market.

The newspaper continues to analyze the scandal surrounding the case of Lamia Guliyeva, which is used by separate pro-government groups to settle scores and for compromising.

Express refers to the rush demand for USD as an artificial panic.

Echo predicts higher prices for all goods in connection with the cheapening of manat in regard to world currencies.

Bizim Yol also devotes much space to the theme of monetary excitement, depreciation of the manat and the upcoming rise in prices.

Yeni Musavat

The expert Sulhaddin Akbar said that after community activists and businessmen ordinary citizens also began to leave Nakhchivan.

The newspaper publishes a quite original comment from the Medical Department of the Justice Ministry that none of the prisoners applied to them about artificial insemination. This was the answer of the Justice Ministry to a query about the birth of a child by the convicted Lamia Guliyeva in custody.