Simmering tensions between Moscow and Azerbaijan boiled over this week when authorities in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, arrested two journalists from Russia’s state news agency Sputnik, along with several other Russian nationals.
The Russian Foreign Ministry responded by summoning Azerbaijan’s ambassador to voice its displeasure with what it called Baku’s “unfriendly actions” and the “illegal detention of Russian journalists,” according to Russia’s news agency TASS.
