Press Review 22/12/2016

Evaluation of the concepts of economic development, the cause of futile searching for missing oil workers, low wages, and paid exams are the themes of today's media.

The newspaper Azerbaijan writes on the improvement of the country's economic concepts and analyzes the strategic roadmaps signed by the President and defining priorities.

The implementation of measures on the 16 strategic priorities must be spent 115 million manat.

The website Azadliq.info discusses the futility of the search for the oilmen missing since 15 December, reminding about the total number of victims among the oilmen. The author believes that the reason for the tragedy is bureaucratic arbitrariness, incompetence, criminal negligence and corruption.

The human rights activist Mirvari Gahramanli believes that the lack of results of the searches is due to the lack of ships at SOCAR, which complicates the search. It is known that the Caspian Sea flotilla has been withdrawn from SOCAR.

Echo has published material about the salaries of civil servants, which are on average 600-650 USD.

It is necessary to freeze the growth of salaries for officials who receive more than 1,000 manat.

According to the committee, on April 1, 2016 the number of salaried public employees in Azerbaijan amounted to 890,600 people.

Novoye Vremya writes about paid entrance exams.