... community or by civil activists, after the April events even Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan, known for his cautiousness in public pronouncements,
raised
the issue of the Russian arms supplies at a meeting with Russia’s PM Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian experts tend to explain the continuing arms supplies to Azerbaijan by, first of all, the fact that they are consistent with the objectives of Russia, which is interested in a partnership with Azerbaijan. Secondly, they are necessary to maintain a
balance
of power in the region. Yet the fact that the situation ...
... devaluations of the Azerbaijani currency
in 2015. The Russian-Turkish crisis and the ongoing tension in the relations between Russia and the West had also formed a tense geopolitical background for the South Caucasus region and created favorable conditions ... ... Nagorno-Karabakh.
REUTERS/Staff
Hovhannes Nikoghosyan:
A Little War that Didn’t Shake the World: a View
from Yerevan
The Azerbaijani army continues to face serious command and control problems when coordinating actions of combined arms, tank, missile and artillery units.
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It can be assumed that Baku arrived at the political decision to launch a large-scale ...
... In the post-Soviet 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 ...