Last Saturday, the world saw real Russia. The 24-hour channel in English Russia Today (RT) which, on officials’ opinion, must recover Russia’s image concerning its former greatness undeservedly desecrated by the Western mass media, has started broadcasting. Observers forecasted revival in the new “button” of the Soviet propaganda department of the standstill epoch, however, many people got surprised on the first day of the channel as the foreign broadcast turned out to be more liberal than the State channels’, including the NTV and REN TV.

Sliska’s project was supported at a presidium session of the faction “Edinaya Rossiya” (United Russia).According to the first vice-speaker, the project will be considered on Tuesday at the Council of the State Duma and is expected to be introduced at the Chamber the nearest Wednesday.

The second bitter truth: dependence of Azerbaijani mass media and/or lack of public control.
If to ask ourselves what relationships are between “media - Azerbaijan political authority”, “media and the Azerbaijan society”, in the first case we will have to agree “a complete dependence”, in the second – “a complete ignore”(maybe even because of the Azerbaijani society’s own customer approach to the press). Nowadays, as 10 and 50 years ago, the Azerbaijani media is still an obedient instrument in the hands of any political and economic groups, and first of all, it is an instrument for the authorities.

Freedom of expression is necessary for democracy and public participation in decision making. Citizens cannot exercise their rights on participation in voting or on decision making if they have neither access to information nor they can express opinions freely. Therefore freedom of expression is important not only for comprehension of self-respect, but also for participation in a political and public life, recognition of responsibility and for democracy construction. Infringement of the right on freedom of expression often goes side by side with other infringements, in particular infringements of the right on free assembly and associations.

In a slaveholding society there were not any problems existing. In particular, there was no problem of access to information. However, there was a problem of possession. People were divided into free proprietors and those who had slaves. The problem of access to information, the problem of control over it became actual when a slaveholding society started to disintegrate, when the movement against tyranny of the Roman emperors that found full parallel in the activity of the Christian church which tried, speaking in the modern language, to establish social justice.

On the same day “Temporary rules on periodicals” with the cancel of preliminary censorship for newspapers and magazines were published but meanwhile there was established duty, when starting distribution of an edition they simultaneously had to send an advance copy to the Committee on press affairs.
The press constrained up to that time by censorship rushed with indescribable energy in fight with the government.

The concept originates back to the English revolution of the XVII century during which the great poet and philosopher John Milton proved the idea of freedom of press. For him it appeared as the most important and natural value of a free person, as the basis of freedom of any society not depending on the form of its political system. Today it may seem surprising, but Milton did not consider freedom of press as indispensable consequence of a republican society, he emphasized that it is possible at any regime, including the British monarchy.

Experience of introduced similar restrictions exists in many countries of the world. For example, in 1960s Great Britain banned TV and radio companies to let terrorists’ spokesmen address audience. However, the ban was bypassed - the speeches of representatives of terrorists’ organizations were read by announcers. In 1970s in the Federative Republic of Germany the law banning mass-media from publishing materials able to encourage readers to act in the way threatening the state stability came into force.

Putin’s epoch is keeping continuity in sense of carelessness concerning criticism, but not an attitude to the fact of criticism at all. Political censorship has returned somehow modernized, somehow of the Soviet kind. “The Soviet’s” approach has been entirely revived on the state TV with the same principles: the head of state and ruling party are “sacred cows” and criticism about official figures is possible only with a sanction from these “cows”.

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.