Press Review - May 3, 2018

World Press Freedom Day, a look at moral values, life in the capital and demands are the leading topics of today's press.

The newspaper Azerbaijan writes that freedom of speech and the press is ensured in the country. Despite the achievement of independence in 1991, freedom of speech and press became possible only after Heydar Aliyev came to power in 1993. It was legalized with the adoption of the Constitution of the country in 1995, and in 1998 censorship was abolished. Further, the author notes that President Ilham Aliyev successfully continues these traditions.

The website Azadliq.info published a material in which the parallel between the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the material and spiritual situation in Azerbaijan is drawn. In this country, the happiest people should live, because it has everything for it. However, the country has become spiritually poor, because apart from money nothing is appreciated. People lose their individuality, trying to be like others. They are trying to adapt to the new dictated values ​​in order to somehow live normally.

The newspaper Echo is trying to find out how much money an average Azerbaijani needs for happiness. The poll showed that the residents of the capital of Azerbaijan need a monthly income of 3,000 manat for their own well-being and happiness on average. The population of Azerbaijan increased the cost of purchasing goods in the first quarter of 2018, spending 8.5 billion manat in retail networks for consumer needs, which is 2.6% more than the expenses of citizens for the corresponding period of the previous year.