Press Review for 1/19/13

 

Official newspapers published the text of the decree of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the application of law to establish Pirallahi district in Baku, the presidential order to allocate AZN 6 million for social and economic development of Shamakhi.

 

State newspapers also hit with attacks on opposition leaders and intellectuals who hold an active citizenship.

 

Azadlig newspaper issued a statement of the former rector of International University on the first page. He said he has 400 videos compromising officials. He intends to make them available at the right time and depending on the scenario.

 

The paper considers possible to go to the polls, guided by the Memorandum of Electoral Reform, developed by 20 lawyers from independent institutions of civil society, and supported by 11 opposition parties.

 

"Rasim Balaev did not stand the pressure," the newspaper commented on the departure of People's Artist Rasim Balaev from the post of the Secretary of the Union of Cinematographers, headed by well-known public figure Rustam Ibraghimbekov.

 

According to official statistics, the shadow economy in Azerbaijan is only 9 percent, while independent economists believe that its volume reaches 60 percent.

 

Zerkalo on the upcoming discussions next week in PACE of the situation with political freedoms in Azerbaijan noted that "the day of reckoning is approaching."

 

Novoye Vremya writes about signing by the official Baku of new gas agreements with the West, and notes that "the authorities continue to rely on oil, gas, and support from the West."

 

The paper considers the adoption of new rules for the use of the airspace of Azerbaijan, as an indication to the Azerbaijani Air Force to destroy Armenian aircraft over Nagorno-Karabakh.

 

Bizim Yol says that one of the founders of the ruling party New Azerbaijan Sirus Tebrizli evaluated the authorities’ campaign against Rustam Ibraghimbekov as a disgrace.

 

Yeni Musavat: Former MP Guler Ahmadova is secretly interrogated by investigators.

 

A former KGB colonel Eldaniz Aliyev said Abulfaz Elchibey in the 1970s was arrested after the current MP Fazail Agamali gave his plans for a national secret circle to KGB.

 

Experts believe that the figures of the State Committee on Statistics on the economic situation in Azerbaijan are not true. -0 –

 

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