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====Relations with Russia====
Russian-Azerbaijani relations are in trouble as a result of two scandals. The first concerns June 2025 police raid against suspected ethnic Azeri [[criminal]]s in Yekaterinburg, during which time two of them died in circumstances that are now being investigated. That prompted [[Baku]] to officially complain to [[Moscow]], after which a vicious infowar campaign was launched on [[social media]] and even among some publicly financed outlets as well alleging that Russia is "[[Islamophobic]]", "[[imperialist]]", and “persecuting Azeris”.
This was shortly followed by a police raid on ''[[Sputnik]]'s'' office in [[Baku]], which had been operating in a legal gray zone after the authorities moved to effectively shut it down in February, 2025 thus resulting in the detainment of several Russians. That earlier decision was suspected to be connected to Azerbaijan's displeasure with Russia's response to late December 2024's [[civilian]] airline tragedy in the [[North Caucasus]] that was caused by a [[Ukrainian]] [[drone attack]] at the time.
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