Press Review - 19 April 2018

A look at Ilham Aliyev's 15-year presidency and behind-the-scenes games around the USD rush are the leading topics of today's press.

The newspaper Azerbaijan writes about the beginning of a new stage of the mission of serving the people by Ilham Aliyev as President of the country.

The author writes that the April 18 inauguration took place in a modest working environment, without pomp. Immediately after taking the oath, the President went to the Administration to begin fulfilling his duties.

The website Azadliq.info also pays attention to the ceremony of the oath of the President on April 18. The author made an excursion into the past 15 years of the rule of President Ilham Aliyev. At the beginning of his presidential career, Aliyev said he would be the President of every citizen of Azerbaijan.

However, at the end of 15 years the independent press has disappeared, more than 100 dissenters are imprisoned, the country's foreign debt has reached 20 billion, 20% of the occupied territory continue to be occupied, and the minimum wage is 130 manat. The authorities view the country as an object that brings good money.

The Yeni Musavat newspaper writes the banks themselves create a US dollar boom. The author writes that the rate of the national currency of all the neighboring countries has decreased for various reasons.

All this creates public fears about the fall of the manat rate, as it has happened with the Turkish lira, the Russian ruble, the Kazakh tenge and the Iranian real.

According to experts, since September, pressure on the manat may increase due to the processes taking place in the world and in the neighboring countries. -0----