Azerbaijan/ 8.1 Direct and indirect support to artists  

8.1.3 Support to professional artists associations or unions

A multi-branched system of creative unions continues to function and operate mainly as professional unions. They obtain their main funds and material-technical bases, including buildings, from the state system, but administer material, social and professional matters themselves, without state interference at present. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and other central and local authorities, provide different kinds of organisational and financial supports to creative unions, involving their members in different national and international events and purchases products of their art and creativity at regular intervals.

Table 9:     Professional artists' unions in Azerbaijan

Source:      State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 2008.