Press Review for 10/31/12

Official newspapers write about President Ilham Aliyev's meeting in Beylagan with Aran and the Karabakh zone entrepreneurs.

Azadlig

Assistance for flood victims of Azerbaijan's Derbent residents is suspended at Russian customs. The paper considers this a Russian rejection of President Ilham Aliyev's aid.

The paper also discusses the Union establishment of Azerbaijani Organizations in Russia.  Lawyer Gurban Mammadov believes the people who created this organization expect " President Ilham Aliyev imminent departure from the post," otherwise this structure would not have been created.

Concerning the authorities chief ideologue's, Ali Hasanov, travel to Moscow, the newspaper reports he asked the Kremlin not to support the new Union.

Zerkalo 

Fifty doner-kabab shops have discontinued service due to hygiene violations.  

Will it be possible to cut down political activity with large fines, and how will the West respond? 

Express regards the criminal investigation into the alleged poisoning of Elchibey, a political speculation that serves interests of certain groups.

Echo

The author of "Historical amnesia of Azerbaijan" article, wonders why our country does not commemorate victims of illegal political repression during the Soviet period.

Bizim Yol

Georgia's new government of Georgia is preparing for "war" on energy with Azerbaijan. The paper view this is the Georgian authorities way out from under the control of Baku.  

The Council of Europe has recognized Musavat activist Nigar Yagublu as a political prisoner.

Yeni Musavat believes that the establishment of the Union of Azerbaijani Organizations in Russia proves the Kremlin plans to use this structure as a means to apply pressure on Baku.