... from the dynamics of the conflicts in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh).
Andrey Frolov:
Military Development in Transcaucasia:
an Arms Race?
It has to be noted that Moscow’s position on all these conflicts has evolved, depending on ... ... processes because they are not so much looking for ways to live together, but for ways to increase Western engagement to which Russia is an obstacle. Hence the conclusion that, after the events of 2014, the regional elites in the Caucasus see Moscow as ...
Author: Andrei Baikov, PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Editor-in-Chief of the International Trends journal
Reflections in the footsteps of Victoria Nuland’s Transcaucasia tour
For several days now, the Russian media has been abuzz over what one journalist dubbed the “explosive” tour of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia taken by Victoria Nuland, whom it has referred to as assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State, but who is actually the assistant ...
... guns
42 D-30 howitzers
12 SU-25К fighter bombers
Bulgaria
12 2С1 self-propelled guns
1,500 submachine guns
450 machineguns
Belarus
60 Т-72 tanks
Three 2С7 self-propelled guns
Source: compiled by author
Potential Outcomes for Transcaucasian Rearmament
wikipedia.org
Russian 102nd Military Base
in Gyumri, Armenia
The above data clearly indicate that between 2000 and 2010, Transcaucasian countries stepped up their weaponization programs and have considerably exceeded their CFE quotas. However, this can hardly be ...
