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Azerbaijan Never Made Claims Against Sputnik Office & Its Journalists in Baku: Russian MFA
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250702/azerbaijan-never-made-claims-against-sputnik-office--its-journalists-in-baku-russian-mfa-1122376800.html Azerbaijan Never Made Claims Against Sputnik Office & Its Journalists in Baku: Russian MFA Azerbaijan Never...

Azerbaijan jails Sputnik executives amid escalating tensions with Russia
Published on 01/07/2025 - 18:10 GMT+2 The executive director and editor-in-chief of Russia's state-run news agency Sputnik in Azerbaijan have been sentenced to four months in prison on Tuesday, following a Baku police raid of the Russian state...

Azerbaijan Arrests Russian Journalists in Baku Amid Escalating Diplomatic Row
The shore of the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 10, 2024. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Authorities in Azerbaijan arrested two journalists from Russian state news agency Sputnik on June 30, in the latest sign of brewing tensions between...

Baku Probes Alleged Killing of Azeris by Russian Police
Azerbaijan said it is launching a probe into the Russian police’s alleged torture and killing of two Azeri citizens during Friday’s raid in Yekaterinburg. The Russian raid resulted in the deaths of Azeri citizens Ziyaddin and Huseyn Safarov, both...

Presidents of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan attend opening of the first phase of Khidirli village in Aghdam district-
On July 3, Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and Sadyr Zhaparov, President of the Kyrgyz Republic, participated in the inauguration ceremony of the first phase of the village of Khidirli in the Aghdam district, APA reports....

Russians Report Nighttime Police Raids in Azerbaijan as Tensions Flare
Russian citizens living in Azerbaijan have reported violent nighttime police raids amid a growing diplomatic rift between Moscow and Baku, according to Kovcheg, an exiled nonprofit that provides support to anti-war Russians living abroad. Tensions...

Azerbaijan Alleges Torture Deaths, Russia Demands Journalists' Release, Armenia Slams "Interference"
Azerbaijani police raided the office of Russia's state-run Sputnik news agency, detaining three journalists, officials and the agency said on Monday (June 30), in the latest escalation of a diplomatic rift between Baku and Moscow.Russia's foreign...

Moroccan Journalists Make Visit To Azerbaijan (PHOTO)
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 3. Heads and representatives of prominent Moroccan media outlets have visited Azerbaijan at the invitation of the State Committee on Work with Diaspora, a source in the committee told Trend . The...

Scandalous Media Bias: Expert Slams Treatment Of Russian Journalists In Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan and Russia Now Trading Raids on Ex-Pat Communities
Well. This is heating up quickly. Russia can't seem to keep its hands off anyone. But with Russian regional elections coming up in September of 2025, the war in Ukraine not going so swimmingly even as it's still going, and the Russian economy...

Azerbaijan presents a note verbale of protest to Russia regarding the murder of its compatriots
Baku, July 1, AZERTAC “First of all, during the meeting of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Russian Federation Rahman Mustafayev at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 1 July, a note...

Russia: Is Moscow losing Azerbaijan as an ally?
Last week, a police raid triggered a diplomatic crisis. Within a few days, the row between Russia and Azerbaijan had escalated, putting considerable strain on the already tense relationship between the two. It began with a controversial police...

Consular access granted to 13 Russian citizens detained in Azerbaijan — MFA spokeswoman
MOSCOW, July 3. /TASS/. Consular access has been granted to 13 Russian nationals detained in Azerbaijan, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS. "Access to 13 Russian citizens detained in Azerbaijan for consular employees...

Zangezur Corridor through Armenia back in the spotlight: US plan and Azerbaijan-Russia tensions
US and Zangezur Corridor management Several online outlets have published a sensational report claiming that the United States is ready to take over the administration of the Zangezur Corridor, potentially resolving one of the most contentious...

Russian propaganda media Sputnik shuts down operations in Azerbaijan amid tensions
Russian state-funded propaganda media outlet Sputnik will cease operations in Azerbaijan, Russia Today media group CEO Dmitry Kiselyov said on July 3, according to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. "We regret to say that, as of today, the...

PM reaches Azerbaijan to outline Pakistan’s perspective on key regional, global issues
Premier Shehbaz will attend 2-day ECO Summit being held in Khankendi under the theme ‘New ECO Vision for a Sustainable and Climate Resilient Future’ PM will reaffirm Pakistan’s commitment to ECO Vision 2025, advocate for deeper intra-regional...

Azerbaijan detains 7 linked to a Russian media outlet as a rift between Baku and Moscow...
On Monday, masked police stormed the offices of Sputnik Azerbaijan. The Interior Ministry said the Kremlin-backed media outlet had continued operating via “illegal financing,” despite having its accreditation revoked in February. Detained in the...

Azerbaijan was subjected to a coordinated disinformation campaign during the Iran-Israel War - Commission
The Temporary Commission of the Milli Majlis on Foreign Interference and Hybrid Threats, in continuation of its June 18, 2025 statement, reports that during and following the 12-day confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State...
Vatican Follies
By Jirair Tutunjian In the past year or two Armenians and possibly odars have been baffled and repelled by the late Pope Francis’ inexplicable warm relations with the Azerbaijan dictatorship. There are fewer than 600 Catholics in Azerbaijan. Now...

Baku launches criminal case into murder of Azerbaijanis in Russia
Join the voices Aliyev wants to silence. For over eight years, OC Media has worked with fearless journalists from Azerbaijan — some of whom now face decades behind bars — to bring you the stories the regime is afraid will get out. Help us fuel...