... the EEU and to turn it into a “Soviet pioneers” organization. If the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh is not settled, Azerbaijan will not be able to become a full-fledged member of the EEU. This is why Moscow insists that the countries move to a compromise discussion via negotiations in bilateral or trilateral format.
Baku and Yerevan often attempt to view Russia’s policy only through the prism of “what is my advantage?” However, they forget that Moscow also wants ...
The emergence of new political formats is usually accompanied by mistrust of the critically minded expert community. However, the emergence of the Russia-Azerbaijan–Iran bloc spanning the western coast of the Caspian Sea could become a powerful impetus for the interpenetration of the three countries’ economies and for institutionalizing political dialog. Are the summit participants themselves ...
... amounts of money on low-performing assets.
Geopolitical risks
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Anna Tikhonova:
Sweet-and-Sour Sino-Russian Gas Project
Cooperation between the EU and the EEU in South Caucasus faces many geopolitical challenges and obstacles.
Firstly, the region of the South Caucasus remains very unstable because of
two frozen conflicts and territorial disputes
. The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has seen an escalation over the last year: in 2015 clashes on borders claimed the lives of 90 Azeri soldiers
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... cooperation (MTC) with Azerbaijan plays the most negative role in the perception of the former within Armenian society and the elite.
Accordingly, Russia’s reduction in investments and the lack of obvious benefits for Armenia from its membership in the EEU make the socio-economic sphere look even more problem-plagued, at least in the eyes of the Armenian public.
Russia’s military-technical cooperation with Azerbaijan has intensified since 2011
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, when Moscow began supplying Baku with S-300PMU2 anti-aircraft missile systems, Mi-35M attack helicopters, and then other armaments. However, progress in Russian-Azerbaijani MTC had been notable in previous ...
... place, the internal political situation in Armenia, which sees itself as an ally of Russia, is extremely important for Moscow’s foreign policy position itself in... ... January 2, 2015 Yerevan has been an official member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)
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. Third, Moscow plays a very important role in the process of Nagorno-Karabakh... ...
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. We should bear in mind, however, that however passive Russia may be, neither Azerbaijan nor Armenia, which are directly involved in the ethno-political confrontation...
