On December 29th at Baku's Gulistan Palace the President of the Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev was presented "The Friend of Journalists" Award.
The Azerbaijani Committee for Protection of Journalists "RUH" has conducted a survey among the media outlets and journalist organizations to determine the winner of the Award "The friend of Journalists" for 2010.
As is reported 30 daily, 19 weekly newspapers, 2 magazines, 11 information agencies, 13 journalist organizations, 8 information portals, 7 TV and 3 radio channels, totally 93 media bodies have participated in the survey. The daily newspapers, TV channels and information agencies were given two questionnaires, other media outlets and journalist organizations were given one questionnaire. The respondents were asked to answer the question "Which public, political figure, official do you consider the friend of journalists in 2010?"
81 percent of the respondents considered that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev deserves the "The Friend of Journalists" Award. The Award instituted in 1997, was last presented to the national leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev in 2002.
Head of the Azerbaijan Sate made speech at the ceremony.
Then, the State Support Fund for Development of Mass Media under the President of Azerbaijan Republic awarded the winners of professional journalistic contest and made lump sum financial assistance to the 31 editions and 8 news agencies.

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