... military supplies should hostilities get rekindled, as well as the only intermediary with the capacity to influence the conflict settlement, taking Azerbaijan’s legitimate interests into account. Signing into the membership in the Customs Union and the EAEU and agreeing to any exemptions from the Euro-Association Agreement, President Sargsyan was primarily counting on the prolongation of Karabakh and eastern Zangezur occupation.
Under Kocharyan and Sargsyan, the sense of self-importance among the Armenian ...
... relations between two equal partners rather than on the basis of patron-client ties. Being a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Armenia may just become the principal venue for Russia to promote ... ... a community of regions (which, historically, the Caucasus has nearly always been). This single ecosystem could also include Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and other historically shaped areas with their unique identities.
Such models do exist ...
... country's declining economic performance doubled with Russia's weak economic situation following Western sanctions and the negligible economic benefits of the EEU's Customs Union for Armenia.
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Sergey Markedonov:
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: At
the Crossroads of Foreign Policy Interests
Moreover, Armenia's
economic dependence
(notably in the key sectors of energy and transportation infrastructure) on Russia, which is a result of the presidencies of Robert Kocharian ...
