The international organization “Reporters without borders” has made a sufficiently harsh statement: “Since the middle of 90-ties, a number of governments and international establishments aspired to operate the Internet by means of laws and instructions. These measures were rather successful. The campaign against terrorism with surpluses of safety has accelerated this tendency in result. A year after the tragic events in New York and Washington, the Internet can be added to the list of “accompanying destructions” which are the security measures caused by the general stream.

They got several necessary letters of permission, including the party’s structures’ ones, but the printing was vetoed by Glavlit (Head Department on State Secret in media at the Cabinet of ministers) at the final stage. The structure motivated its refusal the following way: no initiative authors’ bill may be published unless an official bill “On press media” already is.

He told his students: “We have published the memoirs of Mirza Jalil’s spouse Hamida khanum, but we have not published the memoirs of Hasan bay’s spouse.” Unfortunately, he could not make his dream true while living. Only 20-30 years later his dream has been realized by the initiative, financial and moral support of the Association for Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan Free Speech Foundation, the book “Memoirs of Hanifa khanum Malikova-Abayeva” has been published. The fact of the book’s publishing swept over me by memoirs about Abbas Zamanov.

What is “black PR” and how to struggle it? First of all, we should determine this widespread occurance. To be more exact, “black PR” is a method to damage a person’s or a company’s reputation, which is carried out with a hiden financial support. Therefore, the main purpose of this tecnology method consists of blackening a certain person, a candidate, in this case, in the eyes of the electorate.

The world globalization, surely, affects some languages. Thus, it is impossible to think “any nation would like to have its language on the initial stage of development”. While communication devices are improving, nations become closer by means of a language. The Azerbaijani language is one of the richest, developed languages in the world, but it is simple at the same time. Outstanding representatives of the Azerbaijani science, well-known scientists-philologists have been investigating and analyzing the Azerbaijani language, they have written a lot of scientific works, monographs; they also are giving the language lessons. The Azerbaijani language is an unlimited space; it is interesting for studying while it is also difficult.

A session held by Milli Majlis has attracted the public’s rapt attention for the second time because of Jalal Aliyev’s scandalous speech directed to ANS TV Company. The MP called on this time “to crush heads” of journalists as he called all the channel’s collaborators together with the managing board - drug addicts and sellers when criticized the channel’s moral image.

The Armenian military aggression against Azerbaijan has been continuing for 15 years, as the result of which more than 20% of the Azerbaijan Republic’s territory was occupied and the ethnic cleansing was committed there.
The first stage of the OSCE mission to verify the facts of Armenian settling in the occupied territories was completed the other day. The second stage is to analyze the collected data and to make a report. The mission was presented the data by open and other sources about the settling of 20-23 thousand people in the occupied territories. It should be noted that in compliance with the Geneva Convention of 1949, an occupant is not in power to settle down or to change population in the occupied territory.

The History of the Azerbaijani Alphabet

Seidova Vafa – the expert of Azerbaijan Free Speech Foundation

We can’t even approximately estimate the role of written language in the development of human thinking. The pictures on the rocks in Gobustan prove the desire of the ancient man to write. No science, history would exist without the ability to write which connects the generations. A well-known scientist I.I. Dyakonov wrote that without the alphabet no cultural development of the mankind would be possible from the stone age to the atomic age.

The six of August is a remarkable day for all the journalists in Azerbaijan. On the exact date in 1998 the late ex-president Geydar Aliyev signed the decree on the censorship cancel in mass media. The researches observe development and quality increase in press media just after the decree was signed. The censorship cancel after the native mass media were pressed by authorities for the 70 years gave an impulse to rehabilitate and develop Free Speech in the country. This could be predicted.

We haven’t watched and heard Chingiz Mustafayev on TV space; 12 years have passed since his death. A National hero of Azerbaijan, a famous TV journalist Chingiz Mustafayev died serving his duty in the village Nakhchivanik in Askeran15 June in 1992.

Gafarli Lala Enver - the expert of «Free Speech Defense Fund».

For last years there were significant changes in mass media of the country. First of all it is connected to changes in social structure of the Azerbaijan society. A considerable role in this process has also played that fact, that by virtue of world progress the domestic press was compelled to join to the general stream of development of mass-media. Globalization and development of new technologies allow speeding up transfer of a signal to different points of globe. In particular it was reflected in electronic mass-media, in particular TV and radio. Let's talk about them.

Gafarli Lala Enver - the expert of «Free Speech Defense Fund».

The constitution of the Azerbaijan Republic accepted by national voting - referendum -12 October 1996 year in it articles unequivocally fixes principles of a freedom of speech: «each person has the right to freedom of idea and a freedom of speech», and also freedom of the information: «The person has the right to search, find and distribute the information necessary to him in the lawful way». For the last some years the legislature of the country has accepted a number of laws and the acts regulating the relations in the field of a freedom of speech and mass-media. According to the Constitution, the state censorship in mass-media and in a seal is forbidden. We shall remind, that the decree forbidding censorship in the country has been signed on August, 6 1998 year by President Heydar Aliev.

Reforms in the field of education accepted in 1999 year and reforms in the field of education started in the same year serve as the base to development of education in our country. Under the project of reform it was assumed to lead to three stages which term of carrying out recently has expired.

His first book “Destruction of Dresden” Irving published in 1963. It covered the air attack of allies on the city of Dresden during the World War II. Hundreds of tons of explosive bombs were thrown onto the city during this operation. Irving called the attack the most terrible murder in the history of Europe and gave numbers of lost people which were too much more than of those of most historians’.