
Azerbaijan raids office of Russia’s media office in new diplomatic rift
Police in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku searched the offices of Russia’s state-funded news outlet Sputnik on Monday (June 30, 2025), local media reported, as tensions rose between the two countries after the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis during a police raid last week in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. Sputnik had continued working in the…