{"id":332764,"date":"2025-07-04T23:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/?p=332764"},"modified":"2025-07-05T00:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:35:50","slug":"friday-wrap-up-tensions-escalate-between-azerbaijan-and-russia-following-fsb-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/friday-wrap-up-tensions-escalate-between-azerbaijan-and-russia-following-fsb-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Wrap-Up: Tensions Escalate Between Azerbaijan and Russia Following FSB Raids\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Diplomatic fallout intensifies as raids, detentions, and autopsy disputes deepen Azerbaijan-Russia crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 27, 2025, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) carried out an <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.az\/hadise\/yekaterinburqda-saxlanilan-azerbaycanlilar-sabah-mehkeme-qarsisina-cixarilacaq-5-neferin-olmesi-xeberi-tesdiqlenmir-906770\">operation<\/a> in Yekaterinburg targeting Azerbaijanis, resulting in the deaths of brothers Ziyyaddin (Russian citizen) and Huseyn Safarov (Azerbaijani citizen). Three other Safarov brothers\u2014Ayaz, Mazahir, and Kamal\u2014later <a href=\"https:\/\/modern.az\/olke\/523312\/yekaterinburqda-oldurulen-azerbaycanlilarin-sayi-5-e-catdi\/\">died<\/a> in hospital, while Bakir Safarov, Akif, Ayaz, Kamal, and Mazahir Safarov were seriously injured. Over 60 Azerbaijanis from Jalilabad, Karabakh, and Guba regions were detained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s Foreign Ministry condemned the raids and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.az\/az\/news\/no28225\">summoned<\/a> Russia\u2019s charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires Pyotr Volokovykh, demanding a full investigation and punishment for those responsible. Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee and Interior Ministry said the operation targeted cold cases and included searches at \u201cBaku Plaza,\u201d detaining over 50 Azerbaijanis, some later released.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Safarovs, originally from Aghdam district, owned the \u201cKaspi\u201d restaurant in Yekaterinburg. The operation is linked to a 2001 <a href=\"https:\/\/ura.news\/news\/1052955866\">murder case<\/a> involving a man named Yunis killed at their restaurant. Court hearings for detainees were set to begin soon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.az\/az\/news\/no28025\">statement<\/a> regarding the raids on homes of Azerbaijanis in Yekaterinburg, noting that citizens lost their lives, some were seriously injured, and nine people were detained. They called on Russia to urgently investigate the incident and bring those responsible for the unacceptable violence to justice as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, on June 29, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/culture.gov.az\/posts\/pfbid0e6bBz9k9Rs7T4NCpTXR62RDQ946vbmPQuevsFe6beDCrKVZWfQnFwkwY8TxZyA87l\">suspended<\/a> all Russian cultural events, including concerts, festivals, and exhibitions, condemning what it described as \u201ctargeted, extrajudicial violence\u201d against Azerbaijanis.This suspension affected \u201cDream Fest,\u201d organized by Emin Agalarov and scheduled from July 23 to 26 at Sea Breeze, which featured about 50 artists including 20 Russians, forcing significant program revisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following day, June 30, Azerbaijani authorities conducted a <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/politika\/24392913\">raid<\/a> at the Baku office of \u201cSputnik Az\u0259rbaycan,\u201d part of Russia\u2019s state-owned Rossiya Segodnya media group. Two Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) <a href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/hadise\/sputnik-azerbaycan-da-saxlanilan-sexsler-binadan-cixarilib\/\">officers<\/a>\u2014director Igor Kartavykh and employee Yevgeny Belousov\u2014were <a href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/hadise\/sputnik-azerbaycan-da-saxlanilan-sexsler-binadan-cixarilib\/\">detained<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Azerbaijan\u2019s ambassador to Russia, Rahman Mustafayev, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 1, Azerbaijani forensic experts led by Adalat Hasanov revealed that autopsies of the Safarov brothers showed blunt-force injuries and internal trauma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/az%c9%99rbaycan-t%c9%99r%c9%99fi-yekaterinburqda-ol%c9%99n-az%c9%99rbaycanli-qardaslarin-ekspertiza-r%c9%99yini-aciqlayib\/\">contradicting<\/a> Russian official reports. Azerbaijan subsequently launched its own criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That day, Russia and Azerbaijan exchanged diplomatic notes: <a href=\"https:\/\/mid.ru\/ru\/foreign_policy\/news\/2033515\/\">Russia<\/a> demanded the release of journalists detained in Baku, during a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, while <a href=\"https:\/\/mfa.gov.az\/az\/news\/no28725\">Azerbaijan<\/a> protested the Yekaterinburg operation citing allegations of torture and ethnic profiling and reiterated that actions against Sputnik were lawful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to offer condolences over the Yekaterinburg tragedy. Zelensky publicly expressed Ukraine\u2019s unwavering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/zelenski-yekaterinburqda-bas-ver%c9%99nl%c9%99r%c9%99-gor%c9%99-eliyev%c9%99-z%c9%99ng-edib\/\">support<\/a> for Azerbaijan amid Russia\u2019s \u201cinsulting treatment\u201d and threatening behavior and thanked Aliyev for his support of Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That same day, Shahin Shikhlinski, head of the \u201cAzerbaijan-Ural\u201d public organization and local Azerbaijani diaspora leader in Yekaterinburg, was detained and interrogated as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/rusiyada-az%c9%99rbaycanli-is-adamlari-saxlanilir\/\">witness<\/a> by the Investigative Committee of the Sverdlovsk Region. His son and lawyer, Mutvali Shikhlinski, reported that both were detained by the FSB with force, footage of which was recorded on video. Mutvali was released shortly after; Shahin was questioned and also released. The detentions were believed to be linked to the Yekaterinburg operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kremlin spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vedomosti.ru\/politics\/news\/2025\/07\/02\/1121531-kiev-pitaetsya-sprovotsirovat-razlad-rf-i-azerbaidzhana\">Dmitry Peskov<\/a> accused Kyiv of trying to damage Russia-Azerbaijan relations following Zelensky\u2019s call, alleging Ukraine sought to escalate tensions and provoke Azerbaijan into emotional decisions. Peskov affirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/bas-prokurorluq-yekaterinburqda-hadis%c9%99nin-arasdirilmasi-ucun-%c9%99limizd%c9%99n-g%c9%99l%c9%99ni-ed%c9%99c%c9%99yik\/\">Russia\u2019s commitment to protecting <\/a>the legal rights of its citizens detained in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.ru\/politics\/02\/07\/2025\/686519509a79473629315ca9?from=from_main_3\">warned<\/a> Russian citizens to reconsider travel to Azerbaijan amid rising tensions and noted that Russia\u2019s ambassador to Azerbaijan, Mikhail Yevdokimov, had been summoned by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kp.ru\/online\/news\/6451811\/\">Russian media<\/a> reported that Heydar Aliyev, 27-year-old son of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, owed about 1 million rubles (approximately $10,000) in tax debt related to a 1,600-square-meter luxury villa valued at $35 million in the Mayendorf Gardens elite complex near Moscow. The property is officially registered in his name. The Russian Federal Bailiff Service has faced difficulties collecting the debt due to a birthdate discrepancy. No official statement has been issued by Azerbaijan. The villa was previously investigated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/kicik-heyder-eliyevin-moskvadaki-qesri\/\">Meydan TV <\/a>six years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/feature\/2025\/07\/02\/v-azerbaydzhane-zaderzhali-10-rossiyan-po-podozreniyu-v-kontrabande-narkotikov-i-kiberprestupleniyah\">Meduza<\/a> reported that ten Russian citizens\u2014more than the previously reported seven\u2014were detained in Azerbaijan on suspicions of drug trafficking and cybercrime. Nine detainees were identified, including IT entrepreneur Anton Drachev, former VK and Yandex programmer Dmitri Bezuqliy, programmer Sergey Sofronov, web developer Aleksandr Vaysero, oil engineer Valeri Dulov, psychologist Aleksey Vasilchenko, architecture student Dmitri Fedorov, IT entrepreneur Igor Zabolotskikh, and programmer Ilya Bezuqliy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also on July 3, Kovcheg (The Ark) and the Russian Embassy in Baku reported Azerbaijani law enforcement conducting night raids and home inspections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.currenttime.tv\/a\/azerbaydzhan-proverki-rossiyane\/33462704.html\">targeting Russian citizens<\/a>, sometimes involving physical violence. Azerbaijani authorities have not commented on these reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same day, APA reported that access to Azerbaijani websites with the \u201c.az\u201d domain was <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.az\/mdb-olkeleri\/rusiyada-az-domenli-saytlara-giris-mehdudlasdirilib-907496\">restricted<\/a> in Russia, primarily via mobile internet providers for over a week. WiFi users remained unaffected, and no official statement has been issued by Russian regulators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 4, Moscow police arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/7855458?\">Vagif Suleymanov<\/a>, also known as Vagif Bakinski or Diplomat, for residency violations and sent him to the Sakharovo detention center pending deportation. Videos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/rusiyada-az%c9%99rbaycanlilarin-h%c9%99bsi-davam-edir\/\">showed<\/a> him being forced to the ground and interrogated about alleged theft. Suleymanov is connected to Moscow business ventures, including the \u201cFood City\u201d complex owned by billionaire God Nisanov. Born in 1965 in Tbilisi, he lived in Baku before relocating to Russia in the 1990s. Reports indicate multiple convictions and associations with crime boss Aslan Usoyan (Ded Hasan), killed in 2013. Separately, another Azerbaijani criminal figure named Zaur was detained in Orenburg and awaits trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later on July 4, Elshan Ibrahimov, chairman of the Azerbaijani National-Cultural Autonomy in Moscow, was stripped of his Russian citizenship. Police summoned Ibrahimov on June 28, confiscated his passport, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/svExzI5fQX8\">videos<\/a> of the incident circulated widely on social media. Ibrahimov promised to disclose further details after returning to Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomatic fallout intensifies as raids, detentions, and autopsy disputes deepen &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Friday Wrap-Up: Tensions Escalate Between Azerbaijan and Russia Following FSB Raids\u00a0\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/friday-wrap-up-tensions-escalate-between-azerbaijan-and-russia-following-fsb-raids\/#more-332764\" aria-label=\"Read more about Friday Wrap-Up: Tensions Escalate Between Azerbaijan and Russia Following FSB Raids\u00a0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":332804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,37],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-332764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-en","category-news","tag-azerbaijan","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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