 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Russia ine mumiriri muBaku, uye Azerbaijan ine mumiriri muMoscow uye mumiriri mukuru muSaint Petersburg. Azerbaijan yakazivisawo kuti ichavhura imwe consulate-general muYekaterinburg. Kune vanopfuura hafu yemiriyoni yeAzerbaijani muRussia pamwe neakakurumbira diaspora yevaRussia muAzerbaijan, inova ndiyo yakakura kwazvo diaspora yeRussia mudunhu iri. Mutungamiri weRussia Dmitry Medvedev akataura kuti vanhu veRussia neAzerbaijan vakasungwa neushamwari hwepedyo uye kuvimba. Hukama pakati penyika mbiri idzi hunoramba huri hwehukama uye hwepedyo asi pane kusawirirana kwakawanda senge muhondo yekutanga yeNagorno-Karabakh, kunetsana kweSouth Ossetian-Abkhazian uye chinzvimbo chepamutemo cheGungwa reCaspian. Azerbaijan yakatsigira Russia panyaya yeChechnya uye yakavhara hofisi yemumiriri wemutungamiri weChechen anopandukira Aslan Maskhadov muBaku, sezvo vakatarisana neanogona kupandukira mafambiro eLezghins Lezgistan. Vamwe vaongorori vakati Russia yakanga isina kwayakarerekera uye yakatsigira Azerbaijan muhondo yeKarabakh mukutanga kwema1990 kudzamara hurumende yenyika yaElchibey yatora chigaro, izvo zvakaita kuti Russia isayine zvibvumirano zvakawanda zvemauto neArmenia. Kunyangwe izvi, pamwe chete nekurangarira kwaJanuary Mutema muna 1990, zvinokonzeresa kusavimba neRussia munharaunda yeAzerbaijani, kunyanya pakati pevanhu verudzi, maererano neongororo yakaitwa muna 2007, vangangoita 80 yevaAzerbaijan vanotendera hushamwari neRussia. Pashure pehondo ya2008 neGeorgia, nhamba iyi yakaderera kusvika pa52. Russofobia yakanga isati yambove yakajairika muAzerbaijan uye hurumende yakazvipirawo zvakasimba kuchengetedza kodzero dzevanhu vechiRussian muAzerbaijan, asi ruvengo rwuripo kune maRussia akaroora kana kuti akabatana neArmenians. VaAzerbaijani vanowanzotarisana nerusarura muRussia nekuda kwe Caucasophobia yakajairika mushure meHondo dzeChechen, nechikonzero chikuru chinofungidzirwa kuva chokuti vokuRussia havagoni kusiyanisa pakati pevaAzerbaijan nemamwe marudzi eCaucasian. 