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Baku protests images displayed at its Moscow compound

Azerbaijan's foreign ministry condemned "provocative images against our country" displayed by unknown persons outside its embassy's guest house in Moscow around midday Thursday, and asked Russia for a legal assessment of the act.

Baku protests images displayed at its Moscow compound

The statement, as the outlet Lenta carried it, describes neither the images nor a suspect; it fixes the time, the place and the demand for a legal assessment. No Russian reply to it had surfaced in the wires by Friday morning.

The incident lands on day 6 of the media dispute's on-record phase. Ambassador Rahman Mustafayev put the count of 96 Russian outlets, Telegram and YouTube channels on the record last Sunday, with two named asks: a clear political assessment and concrete measures.

Moscow's visible answer has stayed at the spokesperson's level. Maria Zakharova's line, as the outlet EADaily carried it on Tuesday, was the standing offer of specialized consultations on the information environment, without politicization; her briefing's date was not given in that account. Above that level, no answer to the ambassador's two asks has surfaced in the wires.

“a clear political assessment and concrete measures”

The thread's last formal step remains the summoning of ambassador Mikhail Yevdokimov on 18 August. Since then the escalation has run through counts, interviews and now images at a gate.


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