Press Review 30/07/13

Official newspapers publish the decree of Ilham Aliyev to allocate 2.5 million manat to the development of the city of Lankaran.

Azadlig believes that the Pashayevs completely took control of the upcoming presidential elections, and cornered the head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev.

The human rights activist Rebecca Vincent believes that the media in Azerbaijan are facing a crisis of freedom.

The experts believe that prices in Azerbaijan are higher than those in the CIS and Europe because of the monopoly.

At the expected meeting between Putin, Nazarbayev and Aliyev the key issue will be Azerbaijan's accession to the Customs Union.

Zerkalo 

Putin remembered Azerbaijan to torpedo the peace initiatives of Washington on the Karabakh conflict.

The Commission on Education under the President approved the candidacy of 41 people to continue their education abroad.

Express: Leading experts comment in connection with the use of water from the Araz River to prevent the drying out of Lake Urmia in Iran. Experts believe that the water reserves in Azerbaijan will be reduced.

There are more than 500,000 businesses, of which 18% are women.

Echo

The average man in Azerbaijan spends 20% of his income on alcohol and tobacco.

Bizim Yol says the owner of Pal Syud LLC Mubariz Mansimov has gone bankrupt.

Yeni Musavat writes that official Baku has stopped all relations with the President of Georgia, which is made in favor of Russia.

 “Tbilisi Summit of the opposition” – this is how the newspaper called the trip of 15 members of the National Council to the Georgian capital for a meeting with the single candidate of the National Council Rustam Ibrahimbekov.

Ex-speaker Rasul Guliyev proposed the National Council in Tbilisi to discuss his candidacy as a single candidate, if Ibrahimbekov’s candidacy is declined.

Since the beginning of the summer season 30 people have drowned, 11 of which are children. -0-