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17. Nikoghosyan interview.

18. Peter Pry, War Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink (Westport: Greenwood, 1999), pp. 122–25.

19. “Dogovor mezhdu Rossiyskoy Federatsiyey i Respublikoy Armeniya o rossiyskoy voyennoy baze na territorii Respubliki Armeniya,” 16 March 1995, http://docs.cntd.ru/document/901933348.

20. Interview with Emil Sanamyan, January 2015, Washington, DC.

21. De Waal, Black Garden, p. 202.

22. Thomas de Waal, The Caucasus: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 116.

23. National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus, Population Census 2009, http://belstat.gov.by/en/perepis-naseleniya/perepis-naseleniya-2009-goda/.

24. Oleg Manaev, ed., The Future of Belarus: The Perspective of Independent Experts (St. Petersburg: Nevskii prostor, 2012), p. 36.

25. National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia, 2011 Armenian Nationwide Census, http://armstat.am/file/doc/99478358.pdf.

26. Interview with Artyom, November 2014, Yerevan, Armenia.

27. Interview with Araxya, November 2014, Yerevan, Armenia.

28. Interview with Valentina, November 2014, Yerevan, Armenia.

29. Interview with Kristina, November 2014, Yerevan, Armenia.

30. Interview with Ivan, December 2014, Minsk, Belarus.

31. See more at Zapadnaya Rus’, http://zapadrus.su/.

32. Interview with Nastya, December 2014, Minsk, Belarus.

33. Vatniki is a derogatory term used to denote Russian patriots. In the original meaning, it is a quilted jacket, but since 2012 it has been used on the Russian-speaking internet to symbolize Russian rednecks.

34. Interview with Pavel Usov, January 2015, Minsk, Belarus.

35. Interview with Tatsiana, December 2014, Minsk, Belarus.

36. Interview with Olga, December 2014, Minsk, Belarus.

37. Jurkonis interview.

38. “Boris Gryzlov: Armeniya yavlyayetsya forpostom Rossii na Yuzhnom Kavkaze,” Regnum, 15 December 2004, http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/376296.html.

39. “Armenian, Russian Presidents Sign New Cooperation Agreement,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 27 September 2000, http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1142248.html.

40. “Russia Extends Lease on Military Base in Armenia Through 2044,” Sputnik International, 20 August 2010, http://sputniknews.com/military/20100820/160276128.html.

41. Delcour, “Faithful But Constrained?”

42. Anna Dolgov, “Russian Activists Ask Putin to Send Troops Into Armenia,” Moscow Times, 19 January 2015, http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russian-activists-ask-putin-to-send-troops-into-armenia-/514546.html.

43. Emil Sanamyan, “Gruesome Killings Threaten Russian-Armenian Rapport,” Jane’s Defence Weekly, 4 February 2015.

44. Sergey Markedonov, “Russia and Armenia in the South Caucasus Security Context: Basic Trends and Hidden Contradictions,” in Armenia’s Foreign And Domestic Politics: Development Trends, ed. Mikko Palonkorpi and Alexander Iskandaryan (Yerevan: Caucasus Institute and Aleksanteri Institute, 2013), p. 30.

45. Sargis Arutyunyan, “V sluchaye napadeniya Azerbaidzhana na Karabakh ‘v konflikt mozhet byt vovlechena’ rossiyskaya baza v Armenii,” Azatutyun.am, 31 October 2013, http://rus.azatutyun.am/content/article/25153651.html.

46. Vadim Dubnov, “Kak polkovnik Ruzinskiy possoril Rossiyu i Azerbaidzhan,” RIANovosti, 7 November 2013, http://ria.ru/analytics/20131107/975370885.html.

47. “Rusakan razmabazayi tsaxseri kesy Hayastani aghqatik byujei userin e,” azatutyun.am, 6 November 2014, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/26678066.html.

48. Heritage Foundation, 2014 Index of Economic Freedom: Armenia, http://www.heritage.org/index/country/armenia.

49. Sergey Minasyan, “Russia and Armenia,” in Russian Federation 2013: Short-term Prognosis, ed. Karmo Tüür and Viacheslav Morozov (Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2013), http://www.ut.ee/ABVKeskus/sisu/prognoosid/2013/en/pdf/VF2013.pdf.

50. European Commission Directorate General for Trade, “European Union, Trade in Goods with Armenia,” http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2006/september/tradoc_113345.pdf.