Press Review for 12/27/12

Official newspapers wrote about President Ilham Aliyev meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. The same newspaper published a presidential decree to pardon prisoners and on awarding a number of awards to individuals in the Absheron district.

Azadlig

The staff of the newspaper Azadlig is going to hold a protest action in front of the press distribution company Gasid with the requirement to repay the newspaper.

Politicians have called another pardon from President Ilham Aliyev half-hearted.

Human rights activists believe that the non-inclusion of Ali Insanov and Farhad Aliyev (former ministers) to the list of those pardoned means that the President is afraid of them.

All performances of the famous actor Rasim Balayev are eliminated and not allowed to be aired. Balayev said they could not be erased from the history of national cinema.

Zerkalo 

Georgian Prime Minister Ivanishvili acknowledged that he was hasty in making a statement on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project. 

Express

Azerbaijan will purchase warships.

Echo

1.2 million manat is the cost of one of the most expensive apartments bought in the capital of Azerbaijan. Overall, the cost of the most expensive housing in Baku is 3.5-4 thousand manat per square meter.

Bizim Yol

A meeting was held between President Ilham Aliyev and the former Deputy Prime Minister Abbas Abbasov - active member of the "Union of billionaires," which is considered an anti-Azerbaijani Kremlin project.

Yeni Musavat continued the theme of the meeting of Abbas Abbasov with President Aliyev, calling it the beginning of the "government's negotiations with the union."