KHANKENDI, Azerbaijan (Reuters) -Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, on Saturday said he wanted Russia to publicly ...

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 ...

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. As Russia remains ...

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

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev urges Russia to accept responsibility for accidentally downing an Azerbaijani plane, killing 38. Despite an apology from Putin, formal acknowledgment and action ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...