Baku announced the detention of FSB agents in the office of "Sputnik Azerbaijan"
Azerbaijani security forces detained two people in the office of "Sputnik Azerbaijan", calling them undercover agents of the Russian special services.
As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, today the law enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan came to search the office of the Russian agency "Sputnik Azerbaijan", whose activities were previously officially suspended in the country. Despite this, the office continued to function and the agency's employees went to work, Azerbaijani media reported.
On June 28, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry called on the Russian authorities to investigate the deaths and injuries of Azerbaijanis who suffered as a result of a special operation by security forces in Yekaterinburg, and punish those responsible. In the wake of the incident, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk's visit to Azerbaijan has been cancelled. The Azerbaijani side has deemed it inappropriate for Overchuk or any other Russian official to visit the country in connection with the events in Yekaterinburg. Also, concerts, festivals, and performances with the participation of the Russian side have been cancelled in Azerbaijan.
During investigative activities in the office of the Sputnik Azerbaijan news agency, which is part of the Russia Today propaganda media group, two people were detained and taken away from the cordoned-off area in a law enforcement vehicle. The detainees are FSB officers who were working undercover at the news agency, the APA news agency reported with reference to the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry.
As of 16:44 Moscow time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan has not published any official information on its website about the detentions at the Sputnik Azerbaijan office. The agency confirmed that there are detainees during the investigative actions and promised to provide information about them later, 1news.az reports.
The editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya and the RT TV channel, Margarita Simonyan, commenting on the investigative actions in Azerbaijan, stated that there are Russian citizens among the employees of Sputnik Azerbaijan.
“Employees of our Embassy in Baku have already left for the office of our Sputnik, where a “special operation” is currently taking place. The employees are not responding - apparently, they do not have access to a telephone. There are Russian citizens among them.” - she wrote on her Telegram channel.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, in turn, reported that Russian diplomats have been unable to contact those detained in Baku for more than two hours. According to her, the Azerbaijani side is not allowing embassy representatives to see the detainees "without explanation," TASS reports.
After the detentions at the Sputnik Azerbaijan office, the Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry - the department called the detentions of the agency's employees "unfriendly actions," indicating that Baku had "no complaints" against them in previous years, RIA Novosti reports.
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