Press Review 23/08/13

Official and pro-government newspapers publish orders of the head of state to raise the monthly food allowance for the displaced people and the allocation of AZN 2 million for the social development of the Balakan district.

Azadlig writes that the National Council appointed the session scheduled for August 26 to August 23.

The head of state has increased by 10% monthly food aid for internally displaced persons, i.e. by 1 AZN 65 kopecks. Previously it was 16 manat 50 kopecks.

The famous composer Javanshir Guliyev said that the current government will not be able to return Karabakh either peacefully or through war.

With respect to the independent journalist Arshad Ibrahimli a criminal case has been filed. The journalist circulated a video, where a resident of the district Kalbacar told that the head of the education department of the district gave her a fake diploma.

The criminal case against the journalist was filed on the basis of the woman's complaint to the prosecutor's office of Ganja. She claims that she gave the interview because she was threatened.

Express

The President's order to raise public sector wages is to cover 85,000 people.

The villagers in Dubendi beat to death a resident of Nakhchivan Elnur Abuzarov for pedophilia.

Echo

In Azerbaijan, there are 300 illegal hotels that provide accommodation for a short time.

Bizim Yol writes that four parties included in the National Council oppose the nomination of a reserve single candidate from the National Council.

Yeni Musavat writes that the Ministry of Education did not give a specific answer to the question of whether girls can wear the hijab at school. The Ministry of Education said that all students have to come to school in the prescribed uniform.

In the Kurdish Ronahi Center in Baku a confrontation happened because of the removal of the Chairman of the Center Fakhraddin Pashayev. The case went on before the intervention of the police.  -0--