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Are We Paying too much Attention to the Assistant Secretary of State?

Author: Andrei Baikov, PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Editor-in-Chief of the International Trends journal Reflections in the footsteps of Victoria Nuland’s Transcaucasia tour For several days now, the Russian media has been abuzz over what one journalist dubbed the “explosive” tour of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia taken by Victoria Nuland, whom it has referred to as assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State, but who is actually the assistant to the Under Secretary of State. Interest in Nuland is being fueled by a distorted assessment of her ...

06.03.2015

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Military Development in Transcaucasia: an Arms Race?

..., as well as the Heron and Searcher drones. However, these supplies will hardly put Russian-Armenian relations at risk, because Armenia's security is upheld both by its own defense assets and the Russian military presence in the country. Since 2010, Russia has actually grabbed the largest share of the Azerbaijani arms market. Prior to 2008, the Georgian arms market had been firmly dominated by Ukraine, which had sold 110 Т-72А/B tanks, 52 BMP-2s, 55 BTR-70Di/BTR-80s, five 203-mm 2С7 self-propelled artillery systems, 12 152-mm 2С3 self-propelled artillery systems, two divisions of Buk-M1 ...

16.07.2014

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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)