Azerbaijan's Conflict With Putin Has Reached A New Level

Baku refused to participate in the CIS economic council.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Yagub Eyubov will not come to Moscow for the meeting of the Economic Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). This was reported to Trend by an informed source.

According to the interlocutor, Baku decided not to participate in the work of the body providing economic cooperation of CIS countries due to the escalated conflict with Moscow. "The reason for this decision is the recent events in Yekaterinburg, the AZAL plane shot down by Russians late last year and the unwillingness of the Russian side to take adequate steps to settle these issues," the source said.

Two phases of aggravation have emerged in relations between Russia and Azerbaijan over the past year. In late December 2024, a civilian airliner of the Azerbaijani airline AZAL crashed on the territory of Kazakhstan, which, according to preliminary data, was hit by the Russian air defense system in Grozny during a Ukrainian drone raid on the city.

The tragedy killed 38 people. Baku held Moscow responsible for the incident, accusing the Russian military of shelling the plane and demanding a detailed investigation with compensation for the victims. After that, the authorities closed the Russian House representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Baku and blocked a number of propaganda Russian media outlets, including billionaire Konstantin Malofeev's Tsargrad and Gazprom-Media's Match TV. "Match TV".

In late June 2025, mass searches and detentions at the homes of Azerbaijanis in Yekaterinburg in cases dating back many years killed brothers Ziyaddin and Gusein Safarov, who were considered the main suspects in the massacre of businessman Yunis Pashayev. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry demanded an investigation into the incident, accusing FSB officers of the "brutal murder" of the republic's natives, and handed Russian Ambassador to Baku Peter Volokhov a note of protest.

After that, Russian and Azerbaijani security forces carried out a series of detentions and arrests in the cities of the two countries. In particular, seven employees of the Kremlin-owned Sputnik news agency, whose work was ordered to stop after the crash of the AZAL plane, were detained in Baku on June 30. The next day, two of them - editorial head Igor Kartavykh and editor-in-chief Evgeny Belousov - were arrested on charges of fraud, illegal business activities and laundering of criminal proceeds. Baku considers them undercover FSB officers.

On Wednesday, a court in Yekaterinburg sent the son of the head of the Azerbaijani diaspora, Ural Mutvali Shykhlinski, who was accused of using violence against a representative of the authorities (Article 318 of the Russian Criminal Code), to a pre-trial detention center.

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