Press Review for 2/26/13

Official newspapers write about the anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy as well as awarding the Order of Glory of the Supreme Court Ramiz Rzayev and head of the State Commission on Student Admission Maleyka Abbaszadeh.

Azadlig

The ruling party split into pro Ramiz Mehdiyev and Ali Akhmedov. The newspaper calls it the regular "palace intrigues."

The chess tournament scheduled for Baku was moved to London because of the refusal of a few players to come to Baku. However, SOCAR will sponsor the tournament, allotting $ 5 million to the event.

U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Richard Morningstar, discussed with the authorities the conduction of democratic elections.

In Zurich, outside the offices of the Azerbaijani offshore oil company SOCAR Black Sea, a protest was held against corruption in the operations of the company.

The representative of the southern region of Caucasus Muslims Department, Ghani Akhundzadeh, said that religious groups were formed in recent years in the region, aimed to create a conflict in the country.

Zerkalo published a lengthy article on the anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy.

Express with reference to the experts wrote that an anti-Azerbaijan trend appeared in the Russian press, which qualifies as a "return to the Kremlin's policy of the 90’s."

Echo

Over the past 13 years 30,000 early marriages were registered in Azerbaijan. Some experts believe that these cases are three times more.

Bizim Yol writes about the incident between the military and civilians in the village of Geokmaly, as well as ignoring by the senior members of the ruling party of actions arranged by Ramiz Mehdiyev.

Yeni Musavat

State Property Committee handed the son of the head of the Supreme Majlis of Nakhchivan, Vasif Talibov, 1.5 hectares of land in Baku.

On February 24 Elshad Rzayev was arrested for wounding the deputy head of the city’s police Sahlab Bagirov during a protest in front of the Ministry of Education in October 2012.

Ayaz Mutalibov issued a statement in which he denies all responsibility for the Khojaly tragedy, but at the time he was president of the country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the Order of Friendship to Abel Aghanbekyan, who in 1987 was the ideologist of accession of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia from an economic point of view. –0--