Overview

• Nemat Avazov, head of Baku’s inquiry, said findings into the December downing of the Azerbaijan Airlines jet will be published in the coming days
• Azerbaijani post-mortems concluded that two ethnic Azerbaijanis were beaten to death during a June 27 police raid in Yekaterinburg, contradicting Moscow’s claim of a heart attack
• Azerbaijani authorities arrested Sputnik Azerbaijan’s bureau chief and editor-in-chief on fraud and money laundering charges and detained additional Russian nationals
• Both countries have summoned each other’s ambassadors and Azerbaijan cancelled all planned Russian cultural events as diplomatic protests escalated
• President Ilham Aliyev’s phone call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and strengthened ties with Turkey and Israel highlight Baku’s drive to diversify away from Moscow