... terms. In early October 2015, Ankara rather nervously reacted to a breach of its airspace by Russian fighter jets on combat missions in northern Syria, and on October 6 and 7, Turkish military helicopters under the pretense of an accident
violated the Armenian border
, which was guarded by Russian border guards.
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Vladimir Evseev:
Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Minsk Process as
a Path to Settlement
Amidst the dramatic escalation of tensions in relations with Ankara, many experts have been tempted to interpret the above facts as part of an intensified strengthening of Russia’s ...
... things, due to band-aid-like solutions designed to revive the positive imagine of Russia among Armenian society (e.g. the dynamics of military-technical cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan and Moscow's role in maintaining the ceasefire regime in Nagorno-Karabakh).
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Sergei Markedonov:
Russia – Learning from Armenia
Electric Maydan per se was not a coordinated anti-Russian action, but spontaneously highlighted many problems reflecting perceptions of and dissatisfaction with the policies of Russia.
Economic cooperation has traditionally been one of the areas ...
... Republicans) wins the parliamentary elections, Sargsyan has a real chance of “staying despite having gone”, for example, by becoming prime minister or parliament speaker or head of the ruling Republican Party instead of president
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For Russia, destabilization in Armenia is fraught with upsetting the status quo in Nagorno-Karabakh, and attempts to minimize the Russian influence in Transcaucasia as a whole.
Political Lessons for Armenia, Russia and Armenia–Russia Cooperation (recommendations)
In the current situation, it is imperative for Russian and Armenian ...
... including membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the two countries, allows Yerevan to rely on Moscow’s help in the case of Azerbaijan's aggression against Armenia.
The question is whether these guarantees apply to Nagorno-Karabakh as well, including whether Russia will intervene in the event of war on the territory of this republic alone. At this juncture, the case in question concerns the aggressive actions of Baku not against Stepanakert, but against the territory of Armenia. Therefore, the lack of a clearly ...