A rift has developed between Russia and Azerbaijan, which have had long political, economic and cultural ties.

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Deaths in custody, media offices raided, and beaten and bloodied suspects paraded in court — relations between Russia and Azerbaijan, once considered close, have sharply deteriorated in recent days ...

Azerbaijan has been pushing back against Russian dominance in the Caucasus region, seeking closer ties with Turkey and Israel ...

Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan hit an all-time low this week, as simmering tensions over the death of two ...

The news of two Azerbaijani brothers, Huseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, getting killed following raids in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 27, took tensions to another level.

but not Russia, which has been pulling the strings in the conflict since the 1990s. Moscow’s relations with both Baku and ...

Azerbaijan has canceled all cultural events involving Russian institutions in protest over the deaths of two Azerbaijanis during police raids in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

Another diplomat noted that Russia’s growing ties with Georgia are a concern for both Azerbaijan and Turkey, while Armenia increasingly seeks closer relations with the West.. Some in Azerbaijan ...

These are among the factors that have led to the escalating tensions between Russia and Azerbaijan, the oil-rich Caspian Sea country where President Ilhan Aliyev has been in power since 2003 ...