This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. As Russia remains ...

A rift has developed between Russia and Azerbaijan, which have had long political, economic and cultural ties.

Azerbaijan has been pushing back against Russian dominance in the Caucasus region, seeking closer ties with Turkey and Israel ...

Deaths in custody, media offices raided, and beaten and bloodied suspects paraded in court — relations between Russia and Azerbaijan, once considered close, have sharply deteriorated in recent days ...

but not Russia, which has been pulling the strings in the conflict since the 1990s. Moscow’s relations with both Baku and ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday urged Azerbaijan to restore its ties with Moscow to a level befitting "strategic ...

The news of two Azerbaijani brothers, Huseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, getting killed following raids in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 27, took tensions to another level.

Azerbaijan has canceled all cultural events involving Russian institutions in protest over the deaths of two Azerbaijanis during police raids in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

How Azerbaijan-Russia relations came to a breaking point Baku is leveraging the latest spat with Moscow to reduce Russian influence in the region and potentially strengthen security cooperation ...

By using a “divide and conquer” strategy to keep Azerbaijan and Armenia under its sphere of influence, Russia caused ...

Russia and Azerbaijan developed strong economic and cultural ties after 1993 when Aliyev’s father, Heydar, who also was Azerbaijan’s Soviet-era Communist boss, became president.