Tensions between Russia and the neighbouring Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan are escalating against the backdrop of Moscow's ...

Russia dismissed a senior executive of the TASS state news agency on Friday after he attended an event hosted by the ...

Critics say EU policy has given Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev a free hand during his crackdown on opponents.

Azerbaijani-Russian relations face their worst crisis in decades, fueled by geopolitical rivalry, energy competition, media warfare, and Russia’s aggression, culminating in a deadly airliner incident ...

At a time when Vladimir Putin needs friends in his neighbourhood, he appears instead to be losing them in the South Caucasus.

Russia, busy with its war in Ukraine, didn’t intervene, angering Armenia's leadership that responded by scaling down its ties with Moscow and bolstering relations with the West. The victory in ...

EADaily, July 26th, 2025. Baku is waiting for Moscow to recognize responsibility for the crash of the Embraer E190 aircraft ...

Russia-Azerbaijan relations are going through a difficult phase but Moscow is hopeful they will recover, the Kremlin said on ...

The Kremlin on Monday said Azerbaijan and Russia have entered a “difficult period” in bilateral ties. “Sometimes, it happens ...

The 2022 invasion came as a shock to many of Russia’s neighbors in eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, ...

By The Associated Press Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet that Baku blamed on Moscow ...

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 ...