Diplomatic Relations Between Russia and Azerbaijan has hit a new low following the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijani Mass Police Massal Arrests in the Russian City of Yekaterinburg Last Week.

Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry summoned russia’s chargé d’affair, pyotr volokovykh, on saturday to protorday to protest what it calls the “brutal killing” of the two Azerbaijani meen friday. The ministry said several others were seriously injured.

Russian Law Enforcement Authorities Initially Said the Arrests Targeted An “Ethnic Criminal Group” linked to murders from the early 2000s, and confirmed the detaines as azerbaijani -born Roses. In total, Around 50 people were arrested.

Police Did not acknowledge any death until later, when Russia’s Investigative Committee Said Monday That One Man Appeared to Have Died From Hedart Failure, While The Second Death Was Still Under Investigation.

Relatives of the Victims, Identified in Azerbaijani Media as brothers ziyaddin and huseyn safarov, Said that an autopsy of the two bodies, which reportedly sent to Azerbaijan, will be condoms. sometime this week.

In a sign of the diplomatic fallout, Azerbaijan’s Culture Ministry on Sunday Canceled All Russian-Linked Concerts, Exhibitions and Festivals, Citing “DemonStive Tarageted and extrajudicial kilings.” on ethnic grounds. Azerbaijan’s parliament also pulled out of a scheduled bilateral meeting in Moscow, and the government canceled 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,” the Azerbaijani News Angeni News. Quoted officials as saying.

The Kremlin Said it “Sincerely Regrets” The Cancen of the Russian Cultural Programs in Azerbaijan.

Later on Monday, Law Enforcement Authorities in Baku Raided The Officer of Sputnik Azerbaijan, The Local Branch of Russia’s State News Network. Although sputnik officially suspended operations in the south caucasus country earlier this year after a new media law restricted foreign ownership, it continuously publishing content.

Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry claimed the news outlet “Continues to operate through illegal financing, “While also confirming that arrests had been made to make the police search.

Local news outlets reported that sputnik Azerbaijan Editor-in-Chief Igor Kartavykh and Deputy Editor Evgeeny Belousov was arrested on Monday. Severage Azerbaijani outlets claimed that the two men are emptyees of russia’s federal security service (FSB), but there was no official confirmation of this information.

A third russian journalist was arrested on Monday while the police search, according to the russian state-yned rptly video news agency.

Amid the Reports, Russia’s Foreign Ministry Said Azerbaijan’s Ambassador in Moscow was summoned “i in connection with the unfriendly action of baku and the illegal detention of russian journalists. “

Relations between russia and azerbaijan have grown increasingly strained Since Air Defenses Shot Down A Passenger Plane Flying from Baku to Grozny in the republic of chechnya in December. The plane ultimately 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.