By Aytan Farhadova On January 27, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Rahman Mustafayev met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin. While the official statement by Russia’s Foreign Ministry said that

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin meets Azerbaijan's Ambassador Rakhman Mustafayev in Moscow - Anadolu Ajansı

By Cavid Aga in Baku Tensions between Azerbaijan and Russia have risen following diplomatic exchanges over critical media reports and an unresolved investigation into a deadly air crash involving an Azerbaijani passenger plane in December.

The freshest details regarding the crash of an Embraer 190 aircraft belonging to Azerbaijan’s AZAL company near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, have been revealed.

Publications and broadcasts contradict spirit of declaration on allied interaction signed between Azerbaijan and Russia, says Foreign Ministry statement - Anadolu Ajansı

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Azerbaijan Mikhail Yevdokimov has been summoned to Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Azernews reports,

In 2024, Azerbaijan continued to increase purchases of Russian oil, increasing them by almost a third. However, this did not help to keep the export of raw materials.

Russia would like to see a resumption in the transit of gas via Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, after the European Commission issued a statement saying it planned to continue talks with Kyiv on natural gas supplies to Europe.

Russian gas stopped flowing to Europe via Ukraine at the start of the year over Moscow's invasion of its neighbour. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Early indications suggest a Russian anti-aircraft system may have downed the passenger jet that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, a US official told<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

Armenia and Azerbaijan have a long history of conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region within Azerbaijan until recently mainly populated by Armenians. The first war between them in the 1990s led to the establishment of a self-proclaimed Armenian republic, which no country recognised.

At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.View on euronews