Press Review for 7/1/13

 

Azadlig

The paper calls "merciless war" the confrontation between the Pashayevs family and the head of the Presidential Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev.

A guard from the Personal Protection of President Ilham Aliyev died in a road accident.

The Garadag cement rose by AZN 1 in price. 

Police detained and beat public activist Saleh Gafarli, who was sentenced to administrative detention for five days.

Authorities use a group of athletes to disperse different opposition protests. At the same time, businesses close to the authorities pay the athletes 500 manats monthly.

Opposition leaders, who took part in the meeting of the Nakhchivan branch of the Public Chamber on 30 December, are threatened by phone calls.

 

Zerkalo 

Eight cases from Azerbaijan are in the process of communication in the European Court of Human Rights. Claims from 16 citizens of Azerbaijan expect a quick review.

The columnist regards the fate of the members of the corruption scandal uncovered by Elshad Abdullayev. The commentator believes that one of the participants of this scandal, Gular Akhmedova behaves very carelessly.

 

Yeni Musavat writes about the danger to Aykhan Mammadov, the son of Sevinj Babayeva, who died in Turkey and was involved in a corruption scandal.

Meat imports in Azerbaijan rose by 30%. A truck with meat had to pay a bribe of AZN 6,000 at the border, but now it has grown to AZN 8,000. Because of that, the price of meat in the markets has increased by 10-15%. The newspaper blames the head bodyguard of the President, Beylar Eyubov, which controls the business, for this.

 

The state of the Popular Front Party’s vice-chairman Razi Nurullayev and his wife, who were involved in a traffic accident, remain serious.

 

Along the front line the authorities have begun construction of a fence three meters high. Experts commenting on this fact believe that it is possible preparation for war.

 

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