Baku: After being released from prison, Sputnik Azerbaijan’s editor-in-chief Yevgeny Belousov flew from Baku to Moscow, said Russian Foreign Ministry’s official representative Maria Zakharova, APA’s Moscow bureau reports.

According to Azeri-Press News Agency, operational-search measures conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) at the Baku branch of the ‘Rossiya Segodnya’ Information Agency, known as ‘Sputnik Azerbaijan’, led to a decision on October 24 at the Khatai District Court. The court imposed a preventive measure of three months of house arrest on Belousov.

It is important to note that Igor Kartavikh, the executive director of ‘Sputnik Azerbaijan’, who was previously in custody in Baku, was also released and subsequently sent to Russia.