... two sides of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Recent years saw a lot of talk 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 ...
... 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 ... ... at immediately after reaching a verbal agreement on a ceasefire (Moscow, April 5, 2016) by the chiefs of the General Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan, with their Russian colleague acting as a mediator, are unlikely to be regarded as such political accomplishments.
In all probability, it ...
... received weapons from Slovakia (35 X-25ML and X-29L aircraft missiles in 2005), Serbia (250 Zastava M93 sniper rifles and 100 AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers in 2007), as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina (200 mortars in 2010).
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Table 1. Largest Arms Suppliers to Transcaucasia in 2000-2013.
Azerbaija
Georgia
Armenia
Russia
130 Т-90SA tanks
62 Т-72 tanks
100 BMP-3s
n/a BTR-80s
70 BTR-80/82
450 artillery pieces, MRLS units and mortars
24 Mi-35М helicopters
60 Mi-17 helicopters
2 divisions of S-300PMU-2 antiaircraft missile systems
300 shoulder-fired missiles
...
