Masked men took the detainees out of the Sputnik Azerbaijan building — video

Two detainees "as a result of the operation" in Sputnik Azerbaijan were removed from the building, the Report reports.

The detainees were "taken out of the territory by a law enforcement vehicle."

"On February 24, it became known about the liquidation of the representative office of Russia Today in Azerbaijan. The head of the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Ayhan Hajizade, said that the media resource can receive accreditation only for one correspondent in Azerbaijan. Despite this, as it turned out, the agency continued its activities, and its employees went to work," the Azerbaijani edition writes.

According to Azerbaijani resources, the detainees are executive director of the Baku branch of Sputnik Igor Kartavykh and editor—in-chief Yevgeny Belousov.

As EADaily reported, against the background of detention in Yekaterinburg members of an ethnic group on suspicion of committing murders in the 2000s in A Russophobic campaign has begun in Baku. 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. Two people were detained in the Sputnik Azerbaijan building, according to local media — "FSB agents".