The downing of an Azerbaijani aircraft has become the cause of heightened tensions between Moscow and Baku. Baku’s unwillingness to let the incident slide and its 'unfriendly' steps, such as the closure of the 'Russian House,' provoked new forceful measures by the Kremlin against Azerbaijan: cyberattacks, threats against the Azerbaijani diaspora, and then the orchestrated beatings and killings of Azerbaijanis in Yekaterinburg. The loud, but essentially superficial, conflict has turned out t...
