The purpose of detention in Baku is trying to provoke two "agents of the FSB of Russia", allegedly working undercover in Sputnik Azerbaijan, to provoke Moscow to retaliate, political analyst Marat Bashirov believes.
"And it seems they cannot be avoided... we must answer. Today, only force is recognized," the political scientist writes in the telegram channel.
According to Bashirov, the British started provoking the Azerbaijan—Russia conflict because "they lost to Russia and China in the Iranian case."
"The United States came out with pluses, although their long-term participation was originally conceived, and Trump bombed out (yes, lost his reputation) and immediately bounced back. The classic business approach: I got into business, skimmed the cream and left, leaving the consequences for Britain and Israel to rake in," the political scientist notes.
He recalled that the British are systematically trying to set fire to Russia's relations with the former USSR countries — first Armenia, now Azerbaijan.
"This is a real test of the stability of interethnic relations in our country. The goal is exactly this: to try to arrange conflicts in Russia is between people, not for disputes between governments. You can't fool us so easily, we all understand and distinguish where the crime is and where the good neighbor is," Bashirov added.
As EADaily reported , against the background of detention in Yekaterinburg members of an ethnic group on suspicion of committing murders in the 2000s began a crisis in interstate relations with Azerbaijan. A Russian attorney was summoned to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Baku canceled all cultural events through the Russian line, and the planned visit of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk to Azerbaijan was canceled. The state TV channels of Azerbaijan show anti-Russian stories.
The Kremlin regrets the decisions taken in Azerbaijan concerning Russia after the detentions in Yekaterinburg, Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today, June 30.
"We sincerely regret such decisions. It is important to continue, probably, to clarify the reasons and nature of the events that, in the opinion of the Azerbaijani side, caused such demarches. We believe that everything that is happening is related to the work of law enforcement agencies, and this cannot and should not be a reason for such a reaction," he said.
Peskov also said that the meeting of the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan, Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev, is not planned.