20:56, 24 September 2025

A Yekaterinburg court has extended the arrest of Shahin Shykhlinsky.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg extended the pretrial detention of Shahin Shykhlinski, chairman of the Sverdlovsk public national-cultural organization "Azerbaijan-Ural" and former head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," Shahin Shykhlinski, head of the "Azerbaijan-Ural" organization, was arrested and taken to Yekaterinburg. Before his arrest, he appealed to Ilham Aliyev for help and indicated that he was staying in a guest house at the Azerbaijani embassy in Moscow.

The head of the Azerbaijan-Ural organization, Shahin Shykhlinski (also referred to in the media as Shikhlinsky and Shykhlinsky, - Caucasian Knot note) was detained by security forces in Yekaterinburg on the evening of July 1. According to his son, he was taken to the Investigative Committee for questioning as a witness. Security forces released him that night after questioning him in the Safarov case. On July 16, the court arrested Shahin Shykhlinski's son on charges of assaulting a security officer: on the day of the elder Shykhlinski's arrest, his son, Mutvala Shykhlinski, was driving a Gelenvagen and struck a special forces soldier. Mutvala denies the charges, and the appellate court upheld his pretrial detention.

The court granted the investigator's motion to extend his pretrial detention. Shahin Shykhlinski will remain in pretrial detention until December 30, 2025, Kommersant reports, citing the press service of the Sverdlovsk Region courts.

Preliminary investigation authorities have charged him with attempted murder under Part 2 of Article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code. The pre-trial detention measure has been extended until December 30, 2025. The court ruling has not yet entered into force, the press service clarified.

Relations between Moscow and Baku have noticeably deteriorated since the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane with 67 people on board in Kazakhstan on December 25, 2024, en route from Baku to Grozny. You can read more about this in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Baku-Grozny Air Crash" and in the article "Geopolitical Confrontation: What Did the AZAL Plane Crash Lead to?".

Ethnic raids in Russia and retaliatory detentions of Russians in Azerbaijan have become a new round of deterioration in relations between the two countries. Baku accuses Russian authorities of extrajudicial reprisals against 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".

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/415709