... around Nagorno-Karabakh was one of the first of its kind in the former USSR. Over the past quarter of a century, it has transformed from an intercommunal and inter-republic conflict within a single state (the USSR) into a protracted confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan with the prospects for resolution being unclear
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. Russia (the successor to the USSR) has expressed an interest in settling this confrontation, as have neighbouring Turkey and Iran, and a number of external actors, namely the ...
Like all other post-Soviet countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Armenia celebrated its 25th anniversary of independence in 2016, which is a fitting occasion to draw lessons from the first quarter of a century’s experience, and to look to the future — after lengthy Caucasian toasts have all been raised ...
That’s the puzzle we are entering the 2017 with.
The Azerbaijani armed forces staged a new subversion along the Northeastern part of Armenian-Azerbaijani international border on the early morning hours of
December 29
. Three Armenian soldiers are confirmed killed, while Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense spokesperson
declined
to comment the operation, nor published about losses — ...
A military parade rehearsal is always a big deal. Yet the media’s interest in a rehearsal that took place in Yerevan on September 16, 2016 was not caused by the fact that Armenia was about to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its independence. The Russian-made Iskander missiles
were spotted
in the streets of Yerevan that day. Armenia’s Iskanders have remained in the crosshairs of attention of journalists and analysts ...
What Is to Be Expected from Karapetyan’s Government?
On September 8, 2016, the Hovik Abrahamyan government in Armenia resigned. Former mayor of Yerevan, Karen Karapetyan, who had for the last six years
worked
in Russia as part of Gazprom’s top management (as First Vice-President of Gazprombank, Deputy Director General for Strategy and Development at Gazrpom ...
... Caucasus both from its inner dynamics point of view and considering such background factors as Russian-Turkish relations, the economic situation, energy security, and the effect the Middle Eastern crisis has on the situation in the Caucasus.
Next year, Armenia enters an electoral cycle. The Russian factor will not be of primary importance (Armenians are primarily concerned with the country’s socioeconomic situation), yet it will be significant in the context of national security. Therefore, the ...
Why an Armed Incident Triggered a Political Crisis in Armenia
Why an Armed Incident Triggered a Political Crisis in Armenia
For a whole week now, Armenia has been in the midst of a political crisis triggered by the
seizure of a police regiment building
in the Yerevan district of Erebuni by a group of ...
More than two months have now passed since the worst outbreak of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the
Nagorno Karabakh region
in over 20 years. The fighting erupted on April 2nd and continued until the ceasefire agreement was signed by the Chiefs of Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan at a
meeting in Moscow on April 5th
, after ...
... the sides to agree upon the Basic Principles consistently
advertised by the mediators
for a few years.
While shepherds are still continuing to
discover parts of Smerch and Grad rockets
in the Nagorno Karabakh battlefields, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan scheduled separate meetings in Brussels and Paris on May 31 and June 2 with the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - the international mediators charged to actually shepherd the sides to a negotiated settlement. These gentlemen are ...
... 2019 (and a common oil and gas market by 2025). Until then Russia will remain the main negotiating party of the EU in energy security. EEU leaders will need to take into the account the interests of three major groups of countries: importing countries (Armenia, Belorussia and Kyrgyzstan), exporting countries (Kazakhstan and Russia) and transit countries (Belorussia).
The energy security of the
importing countries
of the EEU consists of “the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable ...
