Azerbaijan - Deprived of income, Azerbaijani paper is forced to stop publishing

Reporters without borders

One of Azerbaijan's leading independent newspapers, the Russian-language Zerkalo (Mirror), has been forced to stop publishing because government control of the advertising market and distribution networks has deprived it of the income it needs to keep operating. Broadcasting was already under complete state control and now the independent print media are in the process of collapse as a result of the economic vice that the government is tightening around them. Zerkalo started publishing (...)

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