A military parade rehearsal is always a big deal. Yet the media’s interest in a rehearsal that took place in Yerevan on September 16, 2016 was not caused by the fact that Armenia was about to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its independence. The Russian-made Iskander missiles
were spotted
in the streets of Yerevan that day. Armenia’s Iskanders have remained in the crosshairs of attention of journalists and analysts ...
What Is to Be Expected from Karapetyan’s Government?
On September 8, 2016, the Hovik Abrahamyan government in Armenia resigned. Former mayor of Yerevan, Karen Karapetyan, who had for the last six years
worked
in Russia as part of Gazprom’s top management (as First Vice-President of Gazprombank, Deputy Director General for Strategy and Development at Gazrpom ...
... Caucasus both from its inner dynamics point of view and considering such background factors as Russian-Turkish relations, the economic situation, energy security, and the effect the Middle Eastern crisis has on the situation in the Caucasus.
Next year, Armenia enters an electoral cycle. The Russian factor will not be of primary importance (Armenians are primarily concerned with the country’s socioeconomic situation), yet it will be significant in the context of national security. Therefore, the ...
Why an Armed Incident Triggered a Political Crisis in Armenia
Why an Armed Incident Triggered a Political Crisis in Armenia
For a whole week now, Armenia has been in the midst of a political crisis triggered by the
seizure of a police regiment building
in the Yerevan district of Erebuni by a group of ...
More than two months have now passed since the worst outbreak of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the
Nagorno Karabakh region
in over 20 years. The fighting erupted on April 2nd and continued until the ceasefire agreement was signed by the Chiefs of Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan at a
meeting in Moscow on April 5th
, after ...
... the sides to agree upon the Basic Principles consistently
advertised by the mediators
for a few years.
While shepherds are still continuing to
discover parts of Smerch and Grad rockets
in the Nagorno Karabakh battlefields, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan scheduled separate meetings in Brussels and Paris on May 31 and June 2 with the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - the international mediators charged to actually shepherd the sides to a negotiated settlement. These gentlemen are ...
... 2019 (and a common oil and gas market by 2025). Until then Russia will remain the main negotiating party of the EU in energy security. EEU leaders will need to take into the account the interests of three major groups of countries: importing countries (Armenia, Belorussia and Kyrgyzstan), exporting countries (Kazakhstan and Russia) and transit countries (Belorussia).
The energy security of the
importing countries
of the EEU consists of “the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable ...
What are the implications of the Vienna meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan?
What are the implications of the Vienna meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan?
The Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Vienna on 16 May 2016 in the presence of the representatives of the countries that co-chair ...
... reports Kazimirov noted at the start of the article that much has been said about the terms and complexities of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The former Ambassador speaks about the conflict as unusual in terms of its stakeholders, which are three, not two (Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan).
Referring to the military onslaught of Azerbaijan against Nagorno Karabalh on April 2, Kazimirov mentions that it was the largest in-scale and most bloodiest military operation since the establishment of the ceasefire ...
... settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh, since it planned to restrict the initial stage to a local military operation and to some kind of “contact reconnaissance” only, and to prevent escalating the conflict into an inevitable military retaliation by the Armenian side. It is noteworthy that NKR President Bako S. Sahakyan said in an
interview
later that during the April escalation the Karabakh forces were ready for possible missile and artillery strikes on Stepanakert and put forward their own long-range ...
