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A Russia-bound Azerbaijan Airlines plane was likely damaged by “external objects” before it crashed in late December 2024, according to a preliminary report published Tuesday by Kazakh authorities. The AZAL Embraer 190 jet was en route from Baku to Grozny on Dec. 25 when it disappeared from radar near Russia’s Caspian Sea coast. It later…
Putin apologises to Azerbaijan President Aliyev for AZAL air crash Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev for the accident with the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft that occurred in Russian airspace. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org by The Presidential Press and Information Office, Vladimir Putin “Vladimir Putin apologized for the fact that…
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Vladimir Putin admitted Saturday that Russian air defence was working when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Grozny before crashing, breaking the Kremlin’s silence as speculation mounted Russia may have accidentally shot down the plane. The Russian leader called his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, apologizing for the incident that took place in Russian…
Azerbaijan Airlines suspended flights between Baku and several Russian cities, local media reported Friday, two days after one of its planes crashed in western Kazakhstan while en route to the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya. The airline announced that flights to Sochi, Mineralnye Vody, Volgograd, Ufa and Samara will be halted starting Saturday “for safety…
One person was killed and 11 were wounded by a ballistic missile strike on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Kryviy Rih, local officials said on December 24 as clashes were reported along much of the front line in eastern Ukraine amid gains by Russian forces and speculation over the Kremlin’s strategy. Ukraine…
Baku, Azerbaijan / Washington — International rights organizations and Western governments are calling on the Azerbaijani government to release prominent human rights defender Rufat Safarov. “The arrest of Rufat Safarov on trumped-up fraud and hooliganism charges is another glaring example of the Azerbaijani authorities’ relentless efforts to silence dissenting voices in the country,” Amnesty International…
