Press Review - April 5, 2018

Availability of conditions for free businesses, expectations about the AZN exchange rate, and evaluation of the policy of the authorities are the topics of today's press.

The newspaper Azerbaijan writes that the country has a stable situation for business development. According to the issued orders, the number of procedures for starting a business has decreased from 15 to 2. These innovations create conditions for foreign investors, increase the number of individuals and legal entities, the author of the article believes and cites the data of international rating agencies about Azerbaijan. So, according to some indicator Business Start, Azerbaijan occupies the 5th place in the world, and is the first among the CIS countries. Whose indicator it is, the author does not explain.

The newspaper Echo is discussing the issue of strengthening or weakening the manat with the expert Nariman Agayev. The expert asserts that the strengthening of the national currency is impossible, given that we are developing the non-oil sector of the economy. For non-oil sectors of economy, the manat should be weak against foreign currencies; if we strengthen the national currency, exporters will suffer greatly. Today's economic realities require a weak manat, and the economy simply will not allow consolidating the national currency, no matter how we want it.

The website Azadliqinfo.az published a material entitled: Why Should Azerbaijan Turn into Syria, and not Norway? The author claims that the methods of the authorities for governing the country are incorrect. Hence the harsh criticism of the authorities in social networks.

And the insults, the author notes, first of all have sounded from the authorities with respect to their opponents.

"Why should Azerbaijan not be like Germany or Norway, or other successful countries, but should necessarily inherit the practice of Syria, Iraq, Yemen, etc?" the author wonders.