{"id":69346,"date":"2025-02-07T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/azerbaijan-escalates-rare-standoff-russia-downing-passenger-plane"},"modified":"2025-02-07T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:00:53","slug":"azerbaijan-escalates-rare-standoff-with-russia-over-downing-of-passenger-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69346","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan escalates rare standoff with Russia over downing of passenger plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baku reportedly preparing to appeal to \u2018an international court\u2019 unless Moscow takes responsibility for crash <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/feb\/07\/greenland-independence-referendum-denmark-snap-election-sweden-belgium-europe-latest-updates-news\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Azerbaijan is escalating its rare standoff with the Kremlin as the fallout from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/26\/russia-seeks-to-play-down-speculation-over-azerbaijan-airlines-crash\">downing of an Azerbaijani passenger jet<\/a> continues, highlighting Russia\u2019s diminishing influence across the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-eight people were killed when an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed on 25 December near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after rerouting across the Caspian Sea from southern Russia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/azerbaijan-escalates-rare-standoff-russia-downing-passenger-plane\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baku reportedly preparing to appeal to \u2018an international court\u2019 unless Moscow takes responsibility for crash Europe live \u2013 latest updatesAzerbaijan is escalating its rare standoff with the Kremlin as the fallout from the downing of an Azerbaijani passe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1551,221,262,419,61,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-kazakhstan","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69346\/revisions\/69347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}