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World News / Azerbaijan and Russia Now Trading Raids on Ex-Pat Communities
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Well this is certainly interesting...the Azerbaijanis are backed by Turkey.
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Well. This is heating up quickly.
Russia can't seem to keep its hands off anyone. But with Russian regional elections coming up in September of 2025, the war in Ukraine not going so swimmingly even as it's still going, and the Russian economy sputtering...
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On June 27, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Yekaterinburg arrested 50 Azeris under the pretext of investigating several decades-old crimes and murders. It ended badly.
They sent them off to Ukraine as conscripts after torturing and beating them.
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In retaliation, the Azerbaijan government, back in Baku, their capital, ordered their forces yesterday to raid the offices of Sputnik, the Russian state news agency there.
The Azeri state news station ran a blistering anti-Putin screed.
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And the interior ministry took it upon themselves to go look for criminals of the Russian persuasion, which they did manage to find. And then put on a fine display of frog marching all the Russian journalists and FSB agents, some of whom had suspiciously fat lips and what looked like shiners.
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Well this is certainly interesting...the Azerbaijanis are backed by Turkey.