Azerbaijan’s culture ministry on sunday caten Rusian-Linked Cultural Events amid diplomatic fallout over the Reported Killing of Ethnic Azerbaijanis Dursing Police Raids in The Russian City of Yekaterinburg.

The foreign ministry in baku summoned russia’s chargé d’affair, pyotr volokovykh, on Saturday to proturday to protest what it called the “brutal killing” of two azerbaijanis during. The ministry said several others were seriously injured and nine were arrested.

Russia’s foreign ministry said Volokovykh Had “offered the necessary explanations” to baku after he was summoned. The ministry said those arrested as Azerbaijani-Born Citizens Accused of “Past Crims,” ​​but it did not mention the alleged deaths.

Police Investigators in Yakterinberg said The raids targeted an “Ethnic Criminal Group” Linked to Murders Between 2001 and 2011.

On Sunday, Azerbaijan’s Culture Ministry Announces of Concerts, Exhibitions and Other Events Organized by Russian Public and Private Groups. It cited what it described as “demonstrative targeted and extrajudicial killings” by Russian Law Enforcement Based on Ethnicity.

At the same time, Azerbaijan’s parliament also withdrew from an upcoming bilateral meeting in Moscow, and baku caneced by a visit by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk.

“The government of Azerbaijan does not consider it approite under the current circuumstances for overchuk or any other official representative of Russia to Visit the Country,” Wrote the Azerbaijani News. Report.

Relations between the two countries have grown increasingly strained Since Air defenses shot down a passinger plane flying from Baku to grozny in December. The plane crashed in Western Kazakhstan, Killing 38 People on Board.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Issued A Rare Apology to Azerbaijani President Ilham aliyev over the crash. Still, he stopped Short of accepting responsibility, Saying Air Defense Systems in Chechnya was responding to a ukrainian drone strike on the day of the disaster.