5 days ago: "with Russia distracted, Azerbaijan moves troops into disputed region with Armenia"...Today: "Explosion rocks Baku, Azerbaijan nightclub"!

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As the grinding war in Ukraine enters its second month, tensions flared in another former Soviet region, where Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a war in 2020, as Azerbaijani troops moved into territory patrolled by Russian peacekeepers.

is the explosion linked to this action?

With Russia distracted, Azerbaijan escalates in Karabakh

The Ukraine invasion offers the opportunity and cover for Azerbaijan to test Russia’s peacekeeping mission deployed in contested Nagorny Karabakh.

www.chathamhouse.org