Sputnik Azerbaijan Editor Released Under House Arrest
Photo: Ill. purposes, Source - Minval.az, detentions of Sputnik employees.
Evgeny Belousov, the chief editor of the Baku branch of "Sputnik Azerbaijan,” has been placed under house arrest, Orda.kz reports, citing APA.
Belousov was detained during an Azerbaijani law enforcement operation.
The Khatai District Court ruled to impose three months of house arrest as a preventive measure. Gununsesi.info first reported on Belousov’s release under house arrest.
Before this development, Igor Kartavykh, the executive director of Sputnik Azerbaijan in Baku, had also been released and returned to Russia.
At the time, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov claimed that the decision was made before the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev in Dushanbe on October 9, according to Kommersant.
Announcements emerged back in February of this year that the representative office of "Rossiya Sevodnya" (Sputnik) in Azerbaijan had been liquidated. The above-mentioned operation was later conducted on the afternoon of June 30 at the Baku office of Russian state media outlet Sputnik.
Subsequent reports indicated that its continued operations may have been the reason.
Those arrests came amid rising tensions between Baku and Moscow, which seem to have visibly eased.
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