Russian residents residing in Azerbaijan have reported violent nighttime police raids amid a growing diplomatic rift between Moscow and Baku, according to Kovcheg, a banished nonprofit that supplies support to anti-war Russians living abroad.Tensions in between the 2 nations escalated today following the deaths of two Azerbaijani men during mass arrests connected to unsolved murders in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg last Friday.Our subscribers stated the authorities concerned them in the evening and questioned them, utilizing non-lethal weapons, about the legality of their stay in Azerbaijan, Kovcheg said.Law enforcement authorities are searching for visa lawbreakers, putting together lists of Russian emigres and using physical force, the group composed on its Telegram channel Wednesday.Earlier, Russias Embassy in Baku said it had actually received numerous grievances from Russian people about document checks over the past 24 hours.
Some of them stated they and their member of the family were subjected to physical violence, the embassy stated in a statement.At least 10 Russian nationals were detained in Azerbaijan after the siblings Ziyaddin Safarov and Huseyn Safarov passed away throughout the arrests in Russia recently.
Russias Foreign Ministry stated that no violations happened during those mass Yekaterinburg arrests.Among those jailed in Baku were the editor-in-chief and deputy editor of Sputnik Azerbaijan, the regional affiliate of the Russian state-funded news network.
On Thursday, Dmitry Kiselyov, head of Sputniks parent business Rossiya Segodnya, revealed the outlet was shutting down.Eight other Russians were accused of becoming part of arranged criminal groups involved in cybercrime and drug trafficking.
Images from court procedures showed some of the detainees with visible injuries.On Wednesday, the Kremlin said it had discovered all the details in videos revealing the arrests and pledged to protect Russian citizens through diplomatic channels and ...
all the ways readily available to us.Russian media recognized numerous of the guys as IT professionals, businesspeople and others whose factors for remaining in Azerbaijan were not right away clear, though authorities have actually not confirmed this information.
Russias Embassy in Baku later implicated Azerbaijans Foreign Ministry of neglecting its requests to approve consular access to the jailed Russians.Law enforcement authorities in Baku introduced a criminal examination in action to the Safarov bros deaths and accused Russian authorities of abuse.
Russian investigators have actually positioned 6 ethnic Azerbaijani guys in pre-trial detention on murder charges associated with Fridays raids.