... about how this balance had been tilted as Azerbaijan used oil revenues to build up its military potential. At the same time, Armenia was particularly appalled by the fact that Russia, Armenia’s strategic ally, was also the
biggest
supplier of arms to Azerbaijan. Whereas prior to 2016 Moscow was blamed for those supplies mainly by the media, the expert community or by civil activists, after the April events even Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan, known for his cautiousness in public pronouncements,...
... of refugee.
In view of the above circumstances, we can draw some preliminary conclusions and forecast the further military-political and diplomatic development of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. Theу are as follows:
A rather limited nature of success in arms during the April fighting notwithstanding, the Azerbaijani side not only hopes to get even, but its aspirations for a military revenge in Nagorno-Karabakh are fuelled by the mentioned above “public request” in Azerbaijan. This perception may be relevant until another attempt by Baku to ...
... period, Baku has refrained from buying from Russia, with the first deal concluded only in 2007 when the Azerbaijanis purchased 62 T-72 tanks and BTR-80 armored personnel carriers, probably right off the line.
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Since that time, Russia's share in the Azerbaijani arms market has been on the rise, ousting previously dominant Ukraine, Belarus and Eastern Europe.
Arms supplies are arriving into the region mainly from Russia, Israel, Ukraine, Turkey, as well as from the CIS and East European countries.
From 2002 ...