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Tag Archives: Armenia

Navigating the Future: NATO-South Caucasus Partnership

20 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense

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Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Collective Security Treaty Organisation, Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia, South Caucasus

English: The breakaway republics of Abkhazia, ...

The breakaway republics of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh within the Caucasus region, after the South Ossetia war in August 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Valentina M. Gevorgyan, Atlantic Community, September 20, 2012

At the recent Chicago Summit, NATO made sure to prioritize partnerships on its agenda. The South Caucasus region is one that can greatly benefit from NATO partnership, especially where security and justice are concerned. NATO’s efforts in the region should aim at resolving frozen conflicts, including the Nagorno Karabagh conflict… (more) ow.ly/2shrzh 

 

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CSTO Exercises Tiptoe Around Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

20 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Russia

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Armenia, Caucasus, Central Asia, Collective Security Treaty Organisation, Military exercise, Russia

 

Political Map of the Caucasus and Central Asia

Political Map of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

By Joshua Kucera, The Bug Pit (Eurasianet), September 20, 2012

 

The Collective Security Treaty Organization has wrapped up its annual military exercises, held this year in Armenia, with the group’s general secretary saying the group needs to create its own military forces, including air forces, in Central Asia. But at a time of heightened tensions in the Caucasus, the drills took a relatively low profile… (more) http://ow.ly/2sgQSy 

 

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  • Russian Defense Minister to visit Armenia (panarmenian.net)
  • Experts on Caucasus-2012 drills: Russia warns Azerbaijan against war (panarmenian.net)

 

Russia’s Caucasus War Games

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Russia

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Armenia, Caucasus, Collective Security Treaty Organisation, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Russians, Tajikistan

 

Administrative map of Caucasus in USSR, 1957-1991

Administrative map of Caucasus in USSR, 1957-1991 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Every time Russia comes to play war in the Caucasus, a sense of alert spreads in the neighborhood. And it does not help if the Russians are running around with guns for two separate war games at the same time… (more) ow.ly/1mvgzzBy Giorgi Lomsadze, Eurasianet, September 18, 2012

 

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CSTO Joint Military Maneuvers Continue In Armenia

 

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  • CSTO Stages Military Exercises In Armenia (rferl.org)
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CSTO Joint Military Maneuvers Continue In Armenia

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in European News

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Armenia, Belarus, Collective Security Treaty Organisation, Collective Security Treaty Organization, CSTO, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Military exercise, Russia, Tajikistan

English: Collective Security Treaty Organisati...

Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) members. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, September 17, 2012

Joint military exercises of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), involving about 2,000 troops from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, are under way at Armenia’s Marshal Baghramian training ground. The war games, which kicked off on September 15 and will run until September 19… (more) http://ow.ly/1mudY3

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Foreign Policy: Security and conflict in the Caucasus region

22 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Turkey

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Armenia, Azerbaijan, Best Defense, Caucasus, GAAT, Georgia, Mark Hertling, Middle East, Russia, Territorial dispute, Turkey, United States Army, US Army

U.S. Army Europe commander discusses current challenges and defense issues in the region with Azerbaijan’s Minister of Defense, Safar Abiyev (left). (Photo: Kelly Schloesser, U.S. Army Europe)

From Tom Rick’s blog The Best Defense, August 20, 2012:

By Lt. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, US Army, Best Defense guest columnist

The Caucasus — that historical causeway of conflict between Europe and the Middle East — remains a complicated tangle of security concerns. Ethnic tensions still affect long standing territorial disputes, internally displaced indigenous people align with or oppose powerful diasporas, and an increasing nouveau riche — an oil-fueled minority upper class — is growing in an area once known only for desperate poverty… (more) http://ow.ly/d8K0x

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RFERL: Armenian Troops Flown To Germany For Training

22 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Balkans, Caucasus, European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense

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Armenia, Bulgaria, Germany, Kosovo, NATO, Romania, Russia, Ukraine

The commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, Lieutenant General Mark Hertling (R), inspects Armenian peacekeeping troops in Yerevan, 18Jul2012 (Photo: RFE/RL)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 15, 2012

More than 100 Armenian soldiers flew to Germany on Wednesday to take part in training and exercises organized by the U.S. military for nations involved in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.

The Armenian Defense Ministry said the 116 soldiers will train at a U.S. military base in Germany from August 16 through September 4 alongside U.S., Bulgarian, Romanian, Slovenian and Ukrainian troops… (more)

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/24678060.html

 

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  • RFERL: Does Russia-Georgia-War Film Signal A Rift Between Putin And Medvedev? (brucekanderson.com)
  • Armenian peacekeepers leave for Kosovo (panarmenian.net)

Focus on Europe: Russia (April 11, 2012)

11 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Russia

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Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Israel, NATO, Russia, Syria, Vladimir Putin

The Kremlin

Ten articles today on Russia, ranging from the mundane to the bizarre.

I’ll start with the bizarre, or at least surprising, story from Business Insider. It says that Russian troops are massing near the border to the Republic of Georgia, ready to move to Armenia to respond to any Israeli and/or U.S. attack on Iran. I say the article is bizarre because this is the only article (picked up by a number of sites, I must admit) I’ve seen about this. Maybe it’s a huge scoop.

I also found an interesting Christian Science Monitor story about Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin and the challenges he’ll face at home and abroad as soon as he takes office on may 7.

Here is article on Russia’s “willingness” to talk with Syrian opposition groups and here is an opinion piece on Russia’s (and China’s) “victory” on the Syrian issue and how that signals America’s decline.

Russia is apparently busy on the rocket and missile front, as suggested by three DefenceTalk articles on various Russian weapons systems: S-400 Missiles deployed in Russia’s Baltic Fleet, a new thermobaric rocket, and the S-500, a new generation surface-to-air missile system.

Atlantic Sentinel, via Wikistrat, has an interesting story on a Baltic port to be built for shipping oil from the Urals.

Moscow Times has a report on ongoing unrest, at least among Russia’s communists and other opposition groups, about the Russian government’s plan to let NATO use a Russian airport to help move people and equipment out of Afghanistan.

And for the mundane, but also a bit odd – the German sports clothing company Adidas has been fined for late delivery of sports uniforms and shoes to the Russian Army, according to this report by Europe Online.

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