The head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Moscow area stated Friday that Russian authorities revoked his citizenship, including that he plans to return to Azerbaijan amid a growing diplomatic conflict between the 2 countries.A video shared late Thursday by an anonymously run Telegram channel appeared to reveal officials informingElshan Ibragimov that his Russian citizenship had been retroactively revoked since June 18.
The Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti stated it validated the videos authenticity with Ibragimov, who declined to comment further.
Azerbaijani media reported that Ibragimov guaranteed to offer more information after getting here in Azerbaijan in a couple of days.According to anonymous sources mentioned by the RBC news outlet, Ibragimov was being deported for actions that threaten Russias national security.By Friday afternoon, Ibragimovs biography was removed from the site of the Moscow areas public commission, where he had actually been listed as the chairman of the regional Azerbaijani cultural autonomy and a member of the regional council for nationwide cultural organizations.Tensions between Russia and Azerbaijan hit an all-time low today following a series of police raids in Russia targeting ethnic Azerbaijanis who are accused of being behind murders going back to the early 2000s.
2 Azerbaijani males were killed in the middle of mass arrests in the city of Yekteriburg, while 6 others were charged with murder and attempted murder and put in pre-trial detention.
A local Azerbaijani diaspora leader was also strongly apprehended, then launched after questioning as a witness.Baku has actually considering that launched a criminal examination into the deaths of the two guys, implicating Russian cops of torture and deliberate killings, while Moscow has actually accused Azerbaijan of interfering in domestic police matters.In obvious retaliation, Azerbaijani authorities said they arrested at least 10 Russian nationals, two of whom work for the Kremlin-funded Sputnik news agency, while the others are accused of cybercrimes and drug trafficking.Amid the getting worse standoff, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday urged calm and blamed certain outdoors forces for attempting to drive a wedge in between the tactical alliance of the two countries.