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.

Azerbaijans president, Ilham Aliyev, has launched a fierce verbal attack on Armenia, which he has called a fascist state. Fascism must be destroyed, he said in an interview on local TV networks on January 7.

Georgia is committed to stability and peace in the region. This was stated by visiting Georgian foreign minister Maka Botchorishvili at a joint press conference with her Armenian colleague, Ararat Mirzoyan, in Yerevan Thursday.

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

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

BAKU. Jan 22 (Interfax) - Trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia rose 10.1% year-on-year to nearly $4.8 billion in 2024, Azerbaijan's State Customs Committee (SCC) told Interfax.