Baku demanded an explanation from Moscow over Nagorno-Karabakh's location on the map.
The appearance of a map on Channel One showing Nagorno-Karabakh prompted the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry to demand clarification from the Russian side.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," Azerbaijani parliamentarians decided to suspend all ties between the Milli Majlis and the European Parliament after the European Parliament adopted a resolution affirming the right of return of Armenians to Karabakh and demanding the release of Armenian prisoners of war. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry handed a note of protest to the EU Ambassador.
On September 19-20, 2023, Azerbaijan carried out large-scale military operations and took control of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which began a mass exodus of the Armenian population. By October 7, 2023, 100,632 internally displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh had arrived in Armenia, and by September 2024, only 14 Armenians remained in the region. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report "The Beginning and End of the Unrecognized Republic of Artsakh".
Official Baku considers the display of a distorted map of Azerbaijan, mentioning the so-called "Nagorno-Karabakh" on the Russian state-run Channel One, said Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Ayhan Hajizade.
"The May 6 broadcast of a distorted map of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which includes the so-called "Nagorno-Karabakh," on the Russian state-run Channel One program "Time Will Tell," is a serious provocation and unacceptable political manipulation," Report quotes him as saying.
The statement also states that Azerbaijan's sovereignty and territorial integrity have been fully restored and recognized by the international community, including the Russian Federation.
"The dissemination of outdated, false narratives that encourage separatism on Russia's state-run television channel is contrary to the spirit of Azerbaijani-Russian relations, as well as the principles of mutual respect and good-neighborliness, including taking into account the Russian side's repeated statements about its unconditional respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan," the report said. statement.
Hajizade called the irresponsible and biased approach of Russian state media resources to such situations unacceptable. "Baku expects Moscow to provide official clarification on this issue, as well as to take the necessary measures to prevent similar incidents in the future," the Foreign Ministry representative concluded.
The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that on December 25, 2024, an Azerbaijan Airlines plane flying from Baku to Grozny crashed at the airport in the Kazakh city of Aktau, killing 38 people. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Transport stated that the plane was damaged in Russian airspace as a result of external impact. Relations between Moscow and Baku have noticeably worsened since the plane crash. More details can be found in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Baku-Grozny Plane Crash" and in the article "Geopolitical Confrontation: What Led to the AZAL Plane Crash".
As a reminder, on December 28, 2024, Vladimir Putin called Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and apologized "due to the fact that the tragic incident" involving the AZAL (Azerbaijan Airlines) plane "occurred in Russian airspace." On December 29, Aliyev publicly demanded that Russia admit guilt for the plane crash, and on January 6, 2025, he criticized the Russian authorities for refusing to admit guilt and demanded that those responsible for the plane crash be punished.
Ethnic raids in Russia and retaliatory detentions of Russians in Azerbaijan marked a new turn in the deterioration of relations between the two countries. Baku accuses Russian authorities of extrajudicial killings of Azerbaijanis, and footage of the brutal detention of Russians in Baku appears to be a demonstrative response to Moscow's actions, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Crisis in Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia".
On June 28, 2025, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry called on Russian authorities to investigate the deaths and injuries of Azerbaijanis who suffered on June 27 as a result of a special operation by security forces in Yekaterinburg. Baku experts named blunt force trauma as the cause of death for the brothers Huseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov, while the Russian side cited a heart attack. On October 10, 2025, it was announced that Sputnik Azerbaijan Executive Director Igor Kartavykh and one of the Azerbaijanis arrested in Russia were released. This decision was agreed upon before the meeting between Putin and Aliyev in Dushanbe.
In April, official Baku and Moscow reported on the settlement of the consequences of the AZAL plane crash, including the issue of compensation. The cause of the tragedy was determined to be an "unintentional action by an air defense system."
Materials on the dynamics of relations between the two states have been collected by the "Caucasian Knot" on the thematic page "Collapse of Relations between Baku and Moscow".