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    RUSSIA GETS ITS ARMED FORCES READY IN THE CAUCASUS

    Experts' club
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    June 29 2012
    Georgia

    A peace initiative on Syria of the UN and the League of the Arab
    States special representative Kofi Annan brought no results. Neither
    government forces nor the armed opposition agreed to it. The
    confrontation between them was renewed on even a larger scale and was
    followed by increase in death numbers. Along with civilians soldiers,
    officers and generals and their families are fleeing Syria. Turkey
    only has received more than 33 thousand Syrian citizens. Situation was
    exacerbated by destruction of a Turkish fighter by the missile defence
    of Syria. Turkey is a NATO member and Ankara along with Washington
    demanded adequate measures against Damascus. Syrian President Bashar
    Assad said his country is in a state of war.

    Against this backdrop, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed
    informaiton voiced previously by the US that Russian cargo ship Alaid
    carried air defence systems and military helicopters to Syria, for
    Bashar al-Assad forces. This means that Russia will again veto new
    international efforts against the Syrian regime.

    In this conditions, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper published an
    article by Vladimir Mukhin under the heading "Caucasus-2012 - combat
    readiness being boosted!", which can be perceived as yet another
    threat to countries that demand to stop the bloodshed in Syria as
    well as the Assad government's resignation.

    Having said that planned command-staff exercises of the Russian
    Army under the code name "Caucasus 2012" are beginning at military
    bases in the south of Russia and Armenia, the author of the article
    notes that though military exercises are considered planned, they
    are directly related to aggravation of economic, geopolitical and
    military problems in the Caspian region, Iran and Syria, as well as
    the Karabakh conflict.

    According to the press service of the Southern Military District
    of Russia, exercises will begin at the training ground "Sernovodsk"
    located in the Stavropol Territory and will last for several months.

    The main purpose of the exercise is to develop objectives for hidden
    control of armed forces using modern information technologies and
    electronic means.

    After Stavropol exercises will start in those parts of the Russian
    army, which are deployed in the occupied regions of Georgia - "South
    Ossetia" and Abkhazia - as well as in the 102nd Russian military
    base in the Armenian city of Gyumri. In Armenia, the main attention
    will be paid to development of coordinated action of the Russian and
    Armenian armies in order to achieve a common goal.

    According to the Armenian Defence Minister Seiran Oganian, during
    manoeuvres the troops will be brought into high combat readiness.

    Culmination of collective rapid reaction forces will take place in
    September. Due to the fact that Azerbaijan and Georgia treat the
    transfer of large units of Russian paratroopers to Armenia with great
    suspicion, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued information about the
    exercise in April - the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper notes. According
    to the newspaper, naval manoeuvres that unfolded on the Caspian Sea
    in recent days seem rather large-scale too.

    According to the commander of the Caspian Flotilla Rear Admiral Sergei
    Alekminsky, 15 surface ships were involved in tactical exercises.

    Their crews should improve solving of some problems of defence against
    underwater threats and sabotage of a group of ships. Also attention
    is paid to issues of protection of oil and gas pipelines, blocking
    drug transfer routes from Afghanistan and so on. The Rear Admiral
    Alekminsky does not rule out that in the view of the existing situation
    the Russian Navy will have to solve larger problems through involvement
    of special purpose units, artillery, missiles and precision-guided
    weapons.

    In the coming months the Caspian Flotilla will increase with new
    ships with modern equipment, which will include Buyan class corvettes
    Volgodonsk and Dagestan. The latter is equipped with missile system
    that uses several types of high-precision missiles against targets
    at ranges up to 300 km.

    Recently, several trains with tanks and other types of modern military
    equipment were demonstratively brought into Makhachkala.

    "The Russian military and political leadership devotes considerable
    attention to strengthening of the country's defence in the Caspian
    Sea region and the Caucasus. There can be no talk of demilitarization
    of the region. Moscow intends to defend its interests here by various
    means, including force "- Vladimir Mukhin is categorical on the pages
    of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newsapper.

    Acouple of weeks ago the same newspaper published an article by
    Sergei Konovalov "Syrian direction of the Russian troops" which, it
    is obvious, like the article by Mukhin, was written on instructions
    of the chief military body of Russia. It demonstrates that threats
    and demonstration of military power became part of the policy of the
    Russian government. And that the civilized world cannot accept.

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