Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan are witnessing another exacerbation these days. Several previous rounds of mutual differences in Moscow and Baku as a whole managed to overcome them without special consequences for the close bilateral relations. However, this time the Azerbaijani side gave freedom to emotions.
After detention at the end of last month in Yekaterinburg, a group of ethnic Azerbaijani, the authorities of the Republic of Transcaucasian decided to cancel all cultural events with the participation of Russia. The country’s Ministry of Culture stated that this was done, “taking into account deliberate murders, more killing and violence committed by Russian law enforcement agencies against Azerbaijanis on the basis of their race in the Sephardelovsk region of the Russian Federation, as well as the fact that these cases have recently become.” In this regard, “the planned cultural events are canceled to hold Russian companies and private institutions in Azerbaijan, including concerts, festivals, shows and exhibitions.”
This was followed by the abolition of the Azerbaijani side to meet between the planned match with the Russian partners.
Demars Baku is accompanied by an unprecedented increase in reports and publications of Russian anti -Russian media. Government media, for example, AZTV, began to accuse law enforcement agencies and even the leadership of the Russian Federation “discriminatory policy” in relation to not only immigrants from Azerbaijan, but also the Central Asian republics. It is clear, without goat directly from the “center”, the Azerbaijani media will not dare …
After the events in Yekaterinburg, Demarch Baku was the first red light that the Deputy Prime Minister lit up in front of Alexei OverchukPlanning to visit Azerbaijan for a working visit. The AZRTAJ (AZRTAJ) indicated that the government of the Republic “does not see any importance in the Overchuk journey or any other (Russian) official in this position.”
Earlier, Azerbaijan reported Russia’s protest regarding the detention of the administrative center of the Sephardelovsk region. The temporary lawyer in the affairs of the Russian Federation in Azerbaijan was summoned to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and expressed a “decisive protest” regarding the raids in Yakherinburg in apartments where migrants live from Azerbaijan.
While operating the law enforcement agencies conducted on June 27 in Yekaterinburg, many people, including the Safarov family, were arrested, resident of Azerbaijani AGDAM. As a result of the actions of the security forces, according to Baku, two brothers were killed – Huseyn and Ziad Al -Din SafarovMany people are transferred to the hospital. In total, dozens of people were detained as part of a criminal case that started.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Investigation Committee in the Sverlofsk region explained that this belief is related to the criminal case of the murders that occurred from 2001 to 2011. The joint statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the investigation of the Committee Investigations said.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova It stated that Baku had given appropriate explanations about the events in Yekaterinburg.
In the messages of Azerbaijani sources, the attendees were in the special description of what happened in the first place. Such a media approach can be observed with a clear confrontation in December 2024, when a passenger lining in Kazakhstan Akto, which executed the Baku -Gerosni journey. A few days after the plane crash, the Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev The “perpetrator” called for what happened, even without waiting for the conclusions of the initial investigation.
Several Azerbaijani media have released a video in which a resident of Yekaterinburg Ramil SafarovIbn Al -Muhtar Ayo SavarovHe says that FSB officers stormed his apartment early in the morning, “hit him and demanded to confess to killing.”
On the “parliamentary line”, severe harsh expressions arose immediately, as the Azerbaijani side put the tone of confrontation in it.
Millie Maglis Vice Rasim Musabekov He described the incident as “harsh” and described it as “a process to expel Azerbaijanis from Russia.” He also suggested the “political background” of the actions of Russian law enforcement officers.
“It should be clarified only. Is this the initiative of some local organizations? That is, in local energy structures, it is believed that the relations between Moscow and Baku have deteriorated, and that they have long wanted to walk along the Azerbaijani diaspora and benefit from the case. The Azerbaijani Parliament went to a meaningful logic.
The data of some other deputies in Baku was more severe.
On this background, Russian lawmakers, on the contrary, tried to explain the uncomfortable statements of their colleagues in the Azerbaijani with an emotional increase, which should simply wait.
Russia will find ways to maintain friendly relations with Azerbaijan, which many are trying to destroy. This was mentioned by the first deputy chairman of the Douma Committee in Douma International Affairs Alexei Chiba In an interview with news.ru.
“It seems to me that this issue will be settled. We must know everything. I am sure we will find ways to maintain our friendly relationships, which many sometimes try to destroy and search for a reason for that,” – I noticed Chiba.
Moscow should not interact with the Mandalitan Paku, such “short -term fading” actions, which should not be answered. In such an opinion, in an interview with the “Rifaat” publication, the first deputy in the Douma Governmental Committee on CIS, Eurasian integration and relations with citizens participated in the first vice -chairman of the State Board of Directors. Viktor vodolaatsky.
“Such procedures are not fruitful. It is not logical to respond to the short damage in the short term of the Ministry of Azerbaijan. We live in the principle: the elephant walks – cries Moska,” – The deputy said.
Vodolaatsky emphasized that the actions of Russian law enforcement employees do not depend on the nationality of those who violate the law:
“Regardless of those there – Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Russians, Ukrainians – every violator should be wiped and severely punished. But for some reason, Azerbaijan had interacted with this, as well as other moments recently, very strange, biased to everything that happens in the relationship between Russia and Azerbijan.”
According to the deputy, President Ilham Aliyev and his advisers chose the position of confrontation with Russia, “although we” did not give any reason. “
“For us, all countries of the Association of Independent Countries are friendly countries. What is happening now, of course, causes confusion. In order to prevent rolling in a rigid confrontation, it is necessary to hold a working meeting at the level of internal chairs from the translator translator and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan and Russia,” – The Russian parliament proposed.
The motive for the confrontation from Baku was not a long time. Last Monday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan announced a “operation” in the office of Sputnik Azerbaijan in the capital of the Republic. Later, it became known that two Russian journalists were detained by the Azerbaijani security forces – the head of the Liberation Office in Sputnik Azerbaijan Igor Cartavi And the head of the editor Evgenia Belousova. According to the local media, they were accused of “working in the service of federal security for Russia.” Journalists are alleged to be FSB employees of the Russian Federation who worked in Sputnik Azerbaijan “under the cover.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry has in response to the Ambassador of Azerbaijan in Moscow regarding Baku’s uncomfortable acts and illegal detention of Russian journalists.
In February, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan announced its intention to stop the work of Sputnik in the Republic. The copy of the publication stated that no official ban on the work was received in Azerbaijan, at all this time there was a constructive dialogue of working groups from foreign policy departments in the two countries to resolve possible differences.
I remember that in February this year, the authorities of the Russian Azerbaijan – the Russian house – the Russian House – the Russian project. In those days, the Baku Press carried out the information process, whose essence was reduced to hanging the Russian house in the Azerbaijani capital of the “Spy Center” brand. Officially, the Republic’s authorities clarified the closure of the registration with the “Russian House” by the “Russian House”. However, the causal relationship of such a decision was originally clear: Russia’s dissatisfaction with nomination with the requirements of its president Aliyev after an aviation center in the sky above the terrible.
In May, there was a new dispute, this time with the participation of prominent legislators in the two countries. Millie Maglis Vice Padamov excuse On May 4, he was detained at Moscow Airport and was not allowed on a trip to Astrakhan, where he was sent as part of an official delegation to participate in the events designated for the birth of the former president of Azerbaijan Hydar Aliyev. The legislator from the ruling party “Eni Azerbaijan” (“New Azerbaijan”) returned to his homeland on the same day. The media in Azerbaijan said that a ban on Russia had been announced without explanation. At the same time, they immediately released a copy of the reason for this step from the Russian side. It is assumed that it is associated with the acute Badamov data to the deputy of the Russian Federation in Douma. Nikolai Valuev.
Demarch tank with regard to the “Russian House” is not an innovation in the Azerbaijani arsenal “penal diplomacy”. But until recently, the authorities of the Republic of Transcaucasian were exclusively with regard to its Western partners, and many of them are already “former” for Azerbaijan. Earlier, there were closed offices of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which are many representative offices of the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the American International Development Agency (USAID). The country’s government also suspended the work of the BBC, Azerbaijani office in Baku.
It seems that we are not dealing with “short -term damage” because of the Azerbaijani leadership, but with its policy aimed at a gradual, but fixed distance from Russia. Over the past five years, if we go back from the fall of 2020, when Azerbaijan, who won the second Karabakh war, came there are clear periods of rapprochement between Moscow and Baku. Many call the starting point signed by the presidents Vladimir Putin Ilham Aliyev on February 22, 2022 in the Kremlin, an announcement of the interaction of the allies between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Azerbaijan*.
However, closer to the current stage, the tendency of the fixed waste of the Azerbaijani side began to build a real form of strategic partnership with Russia in appearing more and more. The point is not only that Aliyev solve the main task for himself to restore cara by Karabach, and as a result he has received great freedom to maneuver foreign policy, and from now on, he does not need everything and always searches for Moscow’s behavior towards himself. In order not to “stand in particular in the celebration” with the Russian partners, the Azerbaijani leader mainly pushes the western trend to renew the state budget for the republic (the main export flows of oil and gas from the Azerbaijani sector, the operator at the center at the center, and the center they occupy in the center.
Periodic bursts arise from discontent to the northern neighbor Ilham Aliyev to his “older brother” represented by the Turkish president Erdogan Tayyip accumulation And other leaders in the West, which were concluded in February 2022, two days before the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, soyuz is not obligated with Russia and the large Azerbaijan with anything. They say, how he was an independent player in the area, so he remained. And a short “novel” with Moscow is just the necessity of circumstance, but not a strategic choice for Baku.
*According to paragraph 7 of the announcement, “the two parties refrain from any measures, in the opinion of one of the parties, were damaged by the strategic partnership and the allies of the two countries.” For these purposes, they create a permanent consultation mechanism through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the two countries.
