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Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 crash.

Russian missile probably caused Azerbaijani plane crash, say experts

Aviation specialists claim holes in the aircraft’s tail section could indicate that it came under fire from air defence systems targeting Ukrainian drones.

  • Jon Gambrell

Yesterday

The Azerbaijan Airlines’ crash on Christmas Day.

Azerbaijani airliner crashes in Kazakhstan, killing dozens

The Embraer 190 was flying from Baku to the Russian city of Grozny when it tried an emergency landing. Remarkably, many passengers survived. Watch the footage.

  • Katie Marie Davies

October 2022

Russian software engineer Nikita Shembel on the waterfront in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The private jet that took 100 Russians away from Putin’s war

Thousands of entrepreneurs, software engineers, bankers, scientists and designers have fled to neighbouring countries. This is how they got out and what their departure means for Russia.

  • Willem Marx

September 2020

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev gestures as he addresses the nation in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday following the clashes.

At least 16 dead as Armenia-Azerbaijan flare-up undermines region

The clashes between the two former Soviet republics, which fought a war in the 1990s, were the latest flare-up of a long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region that is inside Azerbaijan but is run by ethnic Armenians.

  • Nvard Hovhannisyan and Nailia Bagirova

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