Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Azerbaijan on Sunday for a two-day visit, despite Ukraine’s ongoing incursion into the southern Russian region of Kursk. Putin was welcomed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the international airport in Baku. After a joint dinner, the two leaders held informal talks, the Russian state-run TASS news agency reported. The Kremlin said ahead of the trip that the Putin and Aliyev plan to sign several agreements on expanding their countries’ strategic partnership. Aliyev, like Putin, is an authoritarian leader who has been criticized for serious hum…