Press Review 31.05.13

Official newspapers write about the Forum held in Baku on intercultural dialogue and publish the speech of the state leader.

Azadlig

Lawyer Aslan Ismailov is subjected to threats and pressure at the Office for the fight against organized crime, because he accused Interior Minister Ramil Usubov of lying.

Political experts, commenting on the blackening campaign carried out by pro-government newspapers against the National Council regard this as a concern and confusion because of union opposition.

Politicians, commenting on the assurances of official Baku on the allocation of new places for mass actions, note that all of these representations are false, and were made as before.

Zerkalo 

Russia still needs Armenia, so waiting for changes in the Kremlin's position on the Karabakh conflict would be naive.

Express writes about the "last call", held in secondary schools in the country. The police took control of the public schools.

Ministry of Transport has established 105 bus devices for travel cards.

In connection with the introduction of the card system of payment for the fare, bus drivers' salary will increase to 700-800 manats.

Bizim Yol

The separatist movement Sadval intends to hold protests demanding clean the monument to Heydar Aliyev from Dagestan.

Yeni Musavat writes about the preparation by the Russian Federal Security Service of a coup in Azerbaijan with reference to an article in the German magazine Focus.

The Prison Service delays release of amnestied socio-religious leader Haji Mehdi Shamilli.