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The Iskanders in Armenia: Restoration of a Balance or a New Round of the Arms Race?

... the Iskanders arrived to Armenia, the fact that Yerevan has them at all helps maintain a balance between the 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 ...

05.12.2016

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The Four-Day War: the Status Quo Has Become Dangerously Explosive

... 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 for the April escalation of violence in 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. I It can be assumed that Baku arrived at the political decision to launch a large-scale ...

10.05.2016

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Poll conducted

In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)