Officials say police in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku searched the offices of Russia’s state-funded news outlet Sputnik amid rising tensions between the two countries after the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis during a police raid last week in a Russian city.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday (July 2) that it still does not have access to its citizens detained in recent days in Azerbaijan, amid escalating tensions between the two countries. Two journalists working for a Russian state outlet were arrested in Baku on Monday (June 30),

Baku reaffirms expectations for ‘thorough, objective’ investigation into raid in Russian city of Yekaterinburg that resulted in death of 2 Azerbaijanis, says Foreign Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı