Guzman admitted that his work at TASS was a business trip and he is glad to return home.

Mikhail Gusman admitted that his work at TASS was a business trip and that he was glad to have returned home to Azerbaijan. Sinologist Nikolai Vavilov wrote about this in his telegram channel.

"Guzman told one forum that, it turns out, his 40 years of work in Russia's key TASS position was a business trip, and he finally returned to his homeland, to Azerbaijan. To comment on this is only to spoil," Vavilov writes.

In July 2025, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order dismissing Mikhail Gusman from office. Although no official reason was given, everything pointed to his participation in the Shusha Global Media Forum in Azerbaijan.

At this forum, Gusman publicly expressed admiration for Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, calling his foreign policy "absolutely unique" and comparing it to the playing of a "virtuoso violinist." This happened against the background of tense relations between Russia and Azerbaijan, and many in Russia regarded his words as unacceptable and even treacherous.

Immediately after his dismissal, Mikhail Gusman moved to Azerbaijan. Already in August 2025, he was seen at the official farewell ceremony with the people's writer Elchin Efendiyev in Baku.

In Azerbaijan, he was accepted as one of his own. In July 2026, President Ilham Aliyev publicly called Gusman "a worthy son of the Azerbaijani people" and confirmed that for almost 40 years, working in He was actually on a "business trip" to Russia, always keeping in touch with Azerbaijan and helping it break through the "information blockade".