Assessment of the country's energy reserves, new customs duties, and the overall economic situation in the country are the leading topics of today's press.
The newspaper Azerbaijan estimates the gas reserves of the Shah Deniz field. The author takes the reader into an excursion to the Shah Deniz-1 deposit, analyzing the extraction of gas and condensate. Then he approaches the current realities of the Shah Deniz-2 field, focusing on the South Gas Corridor project.
The newspaper Echo published an article titled Starving Groups of Azerbaijani Population and New Customs Duties. Since 2018, Azerbaijan will switch to a new system of customs duties. This is stipulated by the Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity, Customs Rates for Import and Export approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.
The country is not yet ready to provide the population with the necessary food products, and therefore everything is mainly imported, and against this background, the increase in customs duties will exacerbate the already difficult economic situation in the country.
Many segments of the population simply starve, feeding on cheap pasta. Even butter cannot be afforded by many people in Azerbaijan due to its expensiveness now.
The Novoye Vremya newspaper published an article titled Optimistic Central Bank. The author sneers at the statements of the head of the Central Bank against the backdrop of devaluation, ongoing inflation and rising prices. Thus, with the GDP falling by 1% and inflation of 13.7% the Central Bank chief talks about "positive macroeconomic processes". The same goes for the forecasts regarding the stability of the national currency. So, Rustamov's assurances about the stability of the manat traditionally cause distrust.--0--
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Georgian law enforcement has detained an ethnic Azerbaijani in Marneuli who gained international attention through a viral video showing him stuffing a stack of ballots into a voting box, according to Shalva Papuashvili, a member of the political council of the "Georgian Dream" party and the parliament chair.
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On October 28, Baku experienced rain once again. As with five days earlier, streets and homes in the capital flooded. Fortunately, unlike the previous incident, no fatalities occurred this time in waterlogged tunnels. (On October 22, two people drowned in a tunnel flooded with rainwater in Sabunchu district.)
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Two women have died from mushroom poisoning in the Khachmaz region, located 200 km north of Baku. According to Azar Magsudov, the head of the toxicology department at the Clinical Medical Center (CMC), the victims were 46 and 41 years old.
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Changeable weather is expected in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula; rain is possible in some areas in the evening and fog in the morning and evening. Northwest wind will change to the southeast.
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