Azerbaijan among top 3 CIS countries reading most books

Azerbaijan is among the three countries reading the most books in the CIS, said TASS Director General Andrei Kondrashov at the 32nd International Book Exhibition-Fair, Report informs.

"Culture is the core of civilization. According to the results of recent surveys, Belarus is the most book-reading country in the CIS. Some 369 out of every thousand people go to libraries and borrow 69 million books per year. Russia is in second place," he said.

According to Kondrashov, Azerbaijan is in third place, followed by Kazakhstan.