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20-25 â€?racketâ€? newspapers removed from Azerbaijan publishing house

16 October 2006 16:36 (UTC +04:00)

He said that it is difficult to define which newspaper is â€œracketâ€?, but engaged newspapers were removed from the publishing house.
â€œSome newspapers advertise that they will write about a certain person and his activities. But they do not write. It means they go, meet with that person and get something. This is one of the indicators of racketeering. These newspapers were removed from the publishing house, but there are still some,â€? Asgerov said. He said that 20-25 newspapers were removed because of racketeering. There are 160-170 newspapers in the publishing house now.
Asgerov also said that have already begun reconstruction of Azerbaijan publishing house.
â€œThe building of the publishing house is huge. It has not been constructed for 30 years. That is why it is impossible to reconstruct the building in a short period. We pay for everything ourselves. We do not have enough resource, so we do not do capital reconstruction,â€? Asgerov said. /APA/