Press Review July 27, 2018

The reasons for increasing interest in Azerbaijan as a tourist zone, career activities, life in an unnamed village are topics of today's press.

The newspaper "Azerbaijan" writes that the tourist interest in the country has increased. According to statistical data, 1.3 million tourists came to Azerbaijan from 189 countries in the last 6 months.

Statistics say that Russian tourists prefer to have a rest in Baku. The reason is stability in the country, a lot of attractions, good cuisine, tolerance, as well as a large number of beautiful places outside of Baku.

The newspaper Novoye Vremya published an article titled "Why does a career business turn into damage to the state and the environment. The head of the Main Directorate for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev said that the Criminal Investigation Department is investigating seven criminal cases initiated in connection with stone quarries in various regions of the country.

Monitoring conducted in 81 of almost 250 sand and gravel pits operating in individual cities and regions of the country revealed roughly violation of statutory standards, rules and licensing conditions, water supply networks were endangered, the riverbeds were eroded.

14 quarries illegally produced sand and gravel, without licenses, 41 quarries in spite of the ban of the Cabinet, continued work, causing damage to the country in the amount of 16 million manats.

The site "Azadlıqinfo" writes that in the territory of Jalilabad district there is a place called Mugan-Hol, where live the settlers from Lerik. However, this village simply does not exist, it has not been registered anywhere, and its residents have faced social and legal problems. Residents of the village are registered in the Lerik region, but actually live in the Neftchala region. "All our rights have been violated, so far we do not participate in any elections. We do not know who is our deputy," said one resident of the" non-existent "village. -0-