In Baku, security forces came to search the office of "Sputnik Azerbaijan"

The investigative measures are related to the continuation of the agency's work, which was officially suspended in Azerbaijan.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, in early February, at the request of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, the activities of the "Russian House" (representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo) in Baku were terminated; the Kremlin called this a "misunderstanding." Later in February, the representative office of the Russian media group "Rossiya Segodnya" in Azerbaijan, which operated under the name "Sputnik Azerbaijan," was liquidated.

Azerbaijani law enforcement agencies are conducting investigative measures in the office of the Russian agency "Sputnik-Azerbaijan", the Report publication reports. According to APA, the operation is being carried out by the police.

The Qafqazinfo publication writes that the activities of the Sputnik-Azerbaijan agency, which is part of the propaganda media group "Russia Today", were previously officially suspended in Azerbaijan. However, the office continued to function and the agency's employees went to work, the publication notes.

In May, Azerbaijan called Russia the organizer of a cyberattack on its media. Baku believes that the probable motive for the cyberattack on Azerbaijani media resources in February was the closure of the Russian House and the representative office of Rossiya Segodnya. Azerbaijani and Russian analysts stated that Baku's demand to close the Russian House was a way to put pressure on Moscow, seeking Russia's admission of guilt in the crash of the AZAL plane and payment of compensation.

How relations between the two countries changed after the plane crash is also described in the article "Geopolitical confrontation: what the crash of the AZAL plane led to".