1. Government and organizations close to it claiming that free press being established;
2. While opposition considering free speech and thought being restricted.
Facts prove that the majority of people expressing different opinions on freedom of speech and press as well as on condition of mass media have got incomplete and one-sided information about the existing national and international legislations. Comparison of laws on Mass Media operating in Azerbaijan with their analogs in western countries proves not large difference among them as contrary to some people’s sayings. The main reason of this is that, during the laws elaboration the experience of western countries was studied with the national features considered. In contrast to many people’s sayings, freedoms of speech and press are limited in the laws of developed western countries. There are not few articles restricting freedoms of speech and press in these countries together with the regulations to protect them. Duties of mass media members alongside with their rights are exactly stated in the laws of these countries as well as they are in Azerbaijan. Investigation proves that there are laws determining limits of freedoms of speech and press nearly in the all the western countries together with those ones guaranteeing them.

The project on drawing up of a brochure-instruction for a journalists and representatives of the state organs, organizations and establishments. In the brochure it is planned description in the popular and accessible form of specificity interaction of representatives of mass-media and the state structures, illumination of their mutual rights and duties on the basis of laws and other statutory acts.
Increase of a level of legal literacy of the parties participating in a process of a search and reception of the information, increase of an information transparency in a society, prevention of abusing by the rights, both journalists, and workers of state institutions during professional interaction are include in the purposes of the project.

The complex project «The professional journalist of the future » provides carrying out of competition of scientific-information works among students of 4-th and 2-th course of magistracy faculties of journalism of the country. The project includes the publication of final works.
The purposes of the project include formation of objective, impartial, highly moral mass-media, with the help of new generation of the journalists professionally owning a feather, which basis of activity is principles of democracy and a freedom of speech, respect the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic.

The project "Explanatory dictionary" stipulates research work on detailed disclosing of each item of corresponding statutory acts, and also philological interpretation of terms used in legislations on mass-media.
With this purpose within the framework of the project stipulated the edition of an explanatory dictionary on this research work. That edition can be used in activity of law-enforcement structures, courts of all levels, lawyer offices, and also employees of mass-media.

Explanatory dictionary (Research work)