Russia calls on Azerbaijan to restore links with Moscow in the midst of a diplomatic crisis

The Russian Foreign Ministry today called on Azerbaijan to restore its ties with Moscow to the level of “strategic cooperation” after Moscow said some forces were trying to destroy the two countries’ relationship. The diplomatic conflict began last week after the deaths of two Azeris during police raids in Russia and escalated after arresting two Russian journalists working for Russian state media and about 15 Russians as suspects for drug trafficking. Azerbaijan says that the necropsy in Baku for the two men who died in Russia showed that they were beaten to death, although Moscow said one of them had died of heart problems and that authorities in Baku began their own research. Relations between the two countries remain strained by the end of last year when 38 people were killed after his aircraft crash […]
Source: News Beast

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