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Azerbaijan MFA calls on Russia not to interfere in Azerbaijan's internal affairs
"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 verbal on protest of the...

Baku court orders four-month arrest of Sputnik Azerbaijan executives
Home | All news | World | Baku court orders four-month arrest of Sputnik Azerbaijan executives World The Khatai District Court of Baku has ordered the arrest of Igor Kartavykh, head of Sputnik Azerbaijan, and Yevgeny Belousov, the outlet’s...

OP-ED: Good Things Are Happening in Our Neighborhood. On Azerbaijan–Russia–Armenia
Despite my enduring antipathy towards Ilham Aliyev, the main architect behind Azerbaijan’s swamp of dictatorship and corruption, I’ve admired him just as much as a grandmaster of foreign policy. Aliyev outplayed not just Armenia’s foreign policy...

Azeri Security's Actions Against Sputnik Office in Baku Groundless
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250701/azeri-securitys-actions-against-sputnik-office-in-baku-groundless-1122373651.html Azeri Security's Actions Against Sputnik Office in Baku Groundless Azeri Security's Actions Against Sputnik Office in Baku...

Azerbaijan slams Russia's special rep. Shvydkoy’s remarks on cancelled cultural events as biased and unacceptable
Azerbaijan has strongly criticized recent remarks by Mikhail Shvydkoy, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation, regarding the cancellation of Russian cultural events in...

Azerbaijan As A Base For Ukrainian Drones? Aliyev Gets Into A Wedge With Russia
Support SouthFront Click to see the full-size image The recent deterioration of relations between Russia and Azerbaijan took outside observers by surprise. Moscow and Baku do not have any insurmountable differences. They cooperate closely in...

Russia Consul Meets With Detained Sputnik Azerbaijan Journalists in Baku
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250703/russia-consul-meets-with-detained-sputnik-azerbaijan-journalists-in-baku-1122392709.html Russia Consul Meets With Detained Sputnik Azerbaijan Journalists in Baku Russia Consul Meets With Detained Sputnik...

Russian media claims that Azerbaijani police beat and detained its citizens on false charges
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...

Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan: A Stable Friendship & Reliable Partnership
The modern relations between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan represent an example of a dynamically developing strategic partnership based on a solid historical foundation, spiritual closeness and mutual political will to deepen comprehensive...

Azerbaijan's envoy receives note demanding release of Russian journalists, MFA says
MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. Azerbaijani ambassador to Moscow Rahman Mustafayev has been given a note verbale demanding the immediate release of Russian journalists detained in Baku, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "The head of the Azerbaijani...

Ukraine and Azerbaijan agree to deepen cooperation in humanitarian demining
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Yuriy Husyev, met with Vugar Suleymanov, Chairman of the Board of Mine Action Agency of the Republic of. Azerbaijan (ANAMA), the ambassador said in a post on social media, APA reports. It was noted that the main...

Azerbaijan Detained Two Russian Criminal Groups
3 They are suspected of drug transit. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan detained two organized criminal groups in Baku, which included Russian citizens. As haqqin.az reports, they are suspected of transit of narcotic...

Russia restricts access to news websites from Azerbaijan
0 In Moscow and other cities of the Russian Federation, online access to news agencies from Azerbaijan is restricted, reports IPN. Access issues are in Moscow, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Saint Petersburg, Vologda, Chelyabinsk, and other regions,...

Diplomatic Rift Between Moscow And Baku Deepens After Deadly Police Raid
The deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis amid allegations of torture during a police raid last week in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has quickly escalated into a diplomatic confrontation highlighting difficulties in Russia's relations with other...

As Azerbaijan arrests Russians, is Putin losing control of his ‘backyard’?
It was a sight that was once almost unthinkable: battered and bruised Russian citizens dragged into court in a former Soviet republic amid an escalating row with Moscow that has also led to a police raid on the local offices of a Kremlin...

Sports News | World Boxing Cup: Sakshi, Jaismine, Lakshya Chahar Advance as India Maintain Momentum
Astana [Kazakhstan], July 1 (ANI): India's strong start at the World Boxing Cup-Astana, Kazakhstan 2025 gained further ground with Sakshi, Lakshya Chahar, and Jaismine advancing to the quarterfinals on Tuesday following their preliminary victories...

Baku Flow Int'l Breakdancing Championship to be held for first time
Baku Flow International Breakdancing Championship will take place for the first time in Azerbaijan, Azernews reports. Organised by the Azerbaijan Dance Union, this event aims to combine Eastern culture with a modern vision of dance. The name of...

Azerbaijani Carpet Art Showcased At Hague's Atrium City Hall
(MENAFN- AzerNews) A new exhibition titled "The Magnificence of Azerbaijani Carpets: Learning Through Art" has opened at the Atrium City Hall in The Hague. The event is co-organized by the Embassy of Azerbaijan in the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
Azerbaijan accuses Russia of ‘unacceptable violence’ over custody deaths
In 2001, a man was stabbed to death near a lakeside restaurant in Yekaterinburg, an urban centre in Russia’s Ural Mountains region. With his dying breath, he whispered the names of his alleged killers to the police, local media claimed. The man...
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Azerbaijani carpet art showcased at Hague’s atrium city hall [PHOTOS]
A new exhibition titled "The Magnificence of Azerbaijani Carpets: Learning Through Art" has opened at the Atrium City Hall in The Hague. The event is co-organized by the Embassy of Azerbaijan in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Azərxalça OJSC....