With Azerbaijan in mourning this week over the Christmas Day plane crash that claimed 38 lives, political scientist Farhad Mammadov’s mind raced back to November 2020. Then, on the last day of ...

"We can clearly say today that the plane was shot down by Russia," President Ilham Aliyev said in a televised statement Issa Tazhenbayev/Anadolu via Getty Azerbaijan has formally blamed Russia for ...

Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev has accused Russia of shooting down a plane that crashed on Christmas Day, killing 38 people. The plane, an Embraer 190, was en route from Baku to Grozny when ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to Aliyev on Saturday for Wednesday’s “tragic incident” in Russian airspace involving Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 after Russian air ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized but did not assume responsibility. Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev has alleged that the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, claiming 38 lives ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan – Azerbaijan on Dec 29 paid tribute to the pilots and passengers of the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people, after Russian air ...

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to “hush ...

The future of public media depends on viewers like you. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia ...

MOSCOW — Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying ...

He said he regretted that “some circles” in Russia had tried to “hush up” the truth about the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane by sowing false narratives about its causes.

Aliyev said Azerbaijan made three demands to Russia in connection with the crash. “First, the Russian side must apologise to Azerbaijan. Second, it must admit its guilt. Third, punish the guilty ...

The apology was framed within the context of a "tragic incident" that occurred over Russian airspace during a period of tensions with Ukrainian drones. (Russian President Vladimir Putin extended a ...