Press Review 22/01/14

Official newspapers write about the trip of Ilham Aliyev to Ganja and the Goygol region , as well as publish the relevant presidential decree on the allocation of AZN 5 million for the development of Ganja and 2 million manats for Goygol.

 The authorities also intend to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the famous public figure of the Democratic Republic period, Alibey Huseynzade.

Azadlig publishes a report of Human Rights Watch about the human rights situation in Azerbaijan.

Companies distributing newspapers and online publications are going to hold a joint action against police ban on the sale of newspapers .

Achieving the amount of unpaid loans to 1 billion manats is explained by experts with the high bank interest and severe socio-economic status of the population.

Zerkalo 

Russia goes on the offensive. After the Olympic Games in Sochi, the Kremlin's policy on post-Soviet space will become more aggressive, says a columnist .

Express focuses on the Kremlin's statement that in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, all depends on the parties to the conflict.

Isa Yusubov, the son of a Musavat member Eldeniz Yusubov, who is a political refugee in the Netherlands, was appointed an employee of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Azerbaijan.

Bizim Yol writes that SOCAR prepares to cut 20,000 of its employees.

Yeni Musavat writes about the deteriorating situation in the combat zone, commenting it as preparations for war in Karabakh.

The executive secretary of the movement REAL Natig Jafarli believes that the PACE rapporteurs Agramunt and Grech are an affront to European values.

Incarcerated youth activists urge the opposition to stop infighting. -00 -