Yesterday, Day.Az published material “Pardoned journalist sues Azercell mobile operator”. ”Azercell press secretary Rufat Abbasov contacted a Day. Az correspondent and expressed the Company’s official position. He said the following:

Photo session with participation of Taliban soldiers dressed in the military uniform of the killed French soldiers, published in Paris Match magazine served a reason for a conflict between the journalists and French Defense Ministry, the British Guardian wrote on Friday, 5 September.

Yasamal district court presided by judge Tahir Ismaylov considered the suit of a soldier of life-exploitation service company of the Defense Ministry Exploitation Department Ali Yusifov against the founder and chief editor of “Gundalik Baki” newspaper Gabil Veliyev, www.day.az informs referring to the Institute of Reporters’ Freedom and Safety.

Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is going to buy The New York Times, writes an official biographer of the billionaire Michael Wolff in the Vanity Fair magazine. “I saw him looking through the newspare’s issues and imaging on the edition’s collaborators getting mass dismissed after he entered that sacred temple”, Wolff writes.

One of the leading Internet portals of Azerbaijan celebrates its first jubilee. That is Day.Az to which we are referring very often.

The Russian TV Academy has announced that the ceremony of awarding laureates of the national TV Award “TEFI” will not go on the air. This is the first such a case in the history of the contest existing since 1994, RIA Novosti informs.

Death of owner of the web site “Ingushetiya.ru”, Mohammad Evloyev, when being arrested by the militia, can be compared with the murder of Anna Politkovskaya and proves aggravation of situation with free press in Russia, is said in the press release of the OSCE envoy on freedom of mass media, Miklos Haraszti.

The Iranian authorities have closed the office of Dubai's “Al-Arabia” TV Company and expelled its head from the country, is said on the Company’s official web site.

Today, the OSCE Baku office held a presentation ceremony of special vests for journalists. Thanks to those vests, journalists will differ during public events and marches.

Georgian “Imedi” TV has resumed news broadcast since 1 September, RIA Novosti informs. News programs will be aired every two hours. “A journalist diary” program will also go on the air at weekends.
Besides, “Imedi” will show several author's programs broadcasted earlier on “Mze” TV.

National TV and Radio Broadcast Council of Azerbaijan is planning to organize monitoring centers, www.day.az informs referring to the Institute of Reporters’ Freedom and Safety citing aide to the chairman of the NTVRBC, Togrul Mammadov.

Barack Obama’s speech during a session of the US Democtaric Party in Denver got a TV record: it was watched by 38,4 mln TV viewers, AP informs referring to the data of Nielsen Media Research.