Press Review December 16, 2017
The international significance of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, the problems of the banking sector, and the moral state of society are the leading topics of today's press.
The newspaper Azerbaijan writes about the international significance of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway. The author gives figures on the operation of this road, gives the opinion of experts on profitability, transportation of goods and other issues.
The newspaper Novoye Vremya again writes about the deplorable state of the banking sector. The reduction of bank interest on deposits (and this affected deposits both in foreign currency and in manats) caused discontent of all investors.
Currently, 8 banks need to be rehabilitated; most likely, they are threatened with bankruptcy or merger with other banks. Although by and large the entire banking sector of the country, including International Bank, needs rehabilitation.
Azadliq.info writes about the moral aspects of business and about the concept of Halal (fairness for Muslims). The author gives examples of the fact that business is mainly concentrated in "dirty hands", but at the same time, the label Halal is attached to this business. -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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