The Structure of Energy Politics in the South Caucasus: Grounds for Consolidation or Cooperation?

... Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, leading to a four-day operation resulting in significant losses on both sides. Relations between Georgia, on the one hand, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia, on the other hand, seem to be more stable because of the Russian protectorate over two partly-recognized states. Nevertheless, experts still remember the 2008 war and events that preceded ... ... Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline exploded. Anonymous hackers “shut down alarms, cut off communications and super-pressurized the crude oil in the line” which led to the blast [26] . US intelligence agencies believe the Russian government was behind the Refahiye ...