From Plane Crash to Deadly Arrests: What&s Behind the Russia-Azerbaijan StandoffFrom Plane Crash to Deadly Arrests: What&s Behind the Russia-Azerbaijan Standoff
From Plane Crash to Deadly Arrests: What&s Behind the Russia-Azerbaijan Standoff

Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan hit an all-time low this week, as simmering tensions over the death of two Azerbaijani men amid mass arrests in Russia have rapidly escalated into a full-blown diplomatic crisis.

The Moscow Times traces how relations between Russia and Azerbaijan unraveled, and why they may get worse before they get better.

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Kids of soldiers deployed to Ukraine are significantly being classified as at-risk and eliminated from their homes to state-run orphanages and boarding schools, according to reports from authorities in numerous Russian regions reviewed by the Sibirskiy Ekspress Telegram channel.Olga Kazantseva, the children's rights commissioner for the Altai r
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Wage arrears among Russian companies surged in early 2025, reflecting growing financial pressures on businesses across several key industries, according to a report from the General Confederation of Trade Unions obtained by the pro-Kremlin daily Izvestia.

While official government statistics indicate that wage arrears increased from 500 million

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The Kremlin said Wednesday that Russia’s top investigative official is in regular contact with Azerbaijan’s prosecutor general as tensions rise over the arrests of each country's citizens in recent weeks.

“Chairman of the Investigative Committee [Alexander] Bastrykin is in constant contact with the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan,” Kremlin spo

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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday praised Kyrgyzstan for preserving the “special status” of the Russian language, even as the Central Asian country moves to strengthen the use of Kyrgyz in public life.

“I’d like to note and thank you for the fact that the Russian language has been given a special status in Kyrgyzstan,” Putin told Kyrgyz Presi

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Russian natural gas exports to Europe have fallen to their lowest level in half a century, leaving state energy giant Gazprom with billions of cubic meters of unsold gas and deepening the financial strain on one of the Kremlin’s most important economic engines.

Between January and June, Gazprom shipped just 8.33 billion cubic meters of gas to

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