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In January 2003, President Heydar Aliyev froze the print media's debts to the state publishing house through 2005. But that was the only positive development for the Azerbaijani press in what turned out to be a dismal year. With Aliyev's health failing as 2003 wore on, he began grooming his son Ilham Aliyev to take…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260