Against the background of the deterioration of relations between Azerbaijan and Russia, caused by the consequences of the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane near Aktau on December 25, 2024, closer to the third anniversary of the start of the special military

An arrangement is in place that would allow Azerbaijan and Russia to move on from a bitter dispute over the accidental Russian shoot-down of an Azerbaijani civilian passenger jet.

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Turkish Airlines and Emirates are among the carriers that have continued operating flights to Russia since the Ukraine invasion three years ago.

The United States has detained people in five separate cases over the past two years for exporting or attempting to export planes, parts, and components to Russia, whose fleet of Boeing and Airbus passenger jets faces growing problems as supplies of parts and availability of maintenance dry up.

The position expressed by Chechen authorities regarding the AZAL plane crash is considered acceptable to Azerbaijan, a source in the Azerbaijani government told Trend.

Ayhan Hajizade, the spokesperson, did not provide a reason for the decisions, which follow a move by Baku to suspend BBC News' Azerbaijani operations last week. Both Rossiya Segodnya - which operates the Sputnik and RIA Novosti news agencies - and BBC News will be allowed to maintain one correspondent each in the South Caucasus country,

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 28. Turkmenistan Airlines has extended the suspension of its flights from Ashgabat to Russia's Moscow, Trend reports citing the airline's Telegram channel. "Turkmenistan Airlines announced that regular flights on the Ashgabat-Moscow-Ashgabat route will be canceled until 31.03.25," the carrier reports.

Samarkand International Airport continues its rapid expansion with the addition of new direct flights to Baku (Azerbaijan) and Krasnoyarsk (Russia),