On November 26, a group of individuals who attempted to organize a march in Baku with Soviet flags (USSR and Azerbaijani SSR flags) was detained by police. Abdullah Ibrahimli, Ibrahim Asadli, and several others involved in the march were identified and detained, and criminal charges were initiated against them. It was alleged that the detainees "rented an office with the support and funding of another state, operated as a group, and periodically held meetings". Searches of their offices resulted in the confiscation of "numerous materials aimed at promoting communist ideology, flags, copies of books promoting radicalism, as well as CDs and other electronic devices".

On the same day, the Azerbaijani Diaspora in Russia (ADR) stated that Azerbaijan’s security services might have begun a campaign against it. The ADR referred to the detention, claiming that "influential forces close to Western democratic forces are active in the former Soviet republic," and arguing that their objective was to eliminate Russian and Soviet cultural and informational influence in society. The statement added that "the Azerbaijani authorities’ fight against the historical legacy of the USSR continued".