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    WPS Agency, Russia
    DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
    October 31, 2008 Friday



    FORTIFICATION OF BULWARK

    by Andrei Korbut

    RUSSIA ENHANCES ITS MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE CAUCASUS; Russia may
    establish another military base in Armenia.

    President Dmitry Medvedev made a two-day official visit to
    Armenia. Moscow views Yerevan as a strategic ally. Given the new
    geopolitical realities and namely the Georgian aggression against
    South Ossetia and establishment of two independent republics in the
    region, there were matters of common interest for leaders of Russia
    and Armenia to discuss.

    The presidents discussed the advancement of economic and
    military-technical cooperation, situation in the Caucasus, and
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. Toting up his visit, Medvedev
    said Moscow was ready for even closer cooperation (with Armenia -
    Voyenno-Promyshlenny Kurier) within the framework of the CIS
    Collective Security Treaty Organization.

    Russia intends to strengthen its military base in Armenia. Some media
    outlets reported Moscow's plans to establish another military base in
    this country in 2010. What information is available at this point
    indicates that the second military base will be established in the
    environs of Ijevan, a town near the borders with Azerbaijan and
    Georgia. Its personnel will wield heavy military hardware, mobile
    artillery pieces, and other weapons. A medium-range radar may be
    installed there as well, so that Russia will know the state of affairs
    in the airspace above the southern part of the Caucasus. Neither the
    Russian nor the Armenian military confirmed this information. Military
    experts in the meantime suspect that there may be something to it
    because Georgian aggression against South Ossetia convinced the
    Kremlin of the necessity to enhance Russian military presence in the
    region.

    Source: Voyenno-Promyshlenny Kurier, No 43, October 29 - November 4,
    2008, p. 3
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