Notes
- Graham Allison, “Putin's Olympic Gamble,” The National Interest, February 12, 2014, http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/putins-olympic-gamble-9869?page=1.
- Anne Gearan and Loveday Morris, “Syria talks end on a note of uncertainty, U.S. frustration with Russia,” Washington Post, February 15, 2014, www.washingtonpost.com/worldmiddle_east/syria-talks-end-on-a-note-of-uncertainty/2014/02/15/af9c8ee0-9646-11e3-ae45-458927ccedb6_story.html.
- Open Source Center, OSC Analysis, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Central Eurasia (henceforth, FBIS SOV), January 31, 2014.
- Stephen Blank, “Putin's Agenda: Gunboat Diplomacy,” Eurasia Dady Monitor, December 12, 2011.
- “Egypt turns to Russia to buy $4 billion weapons supplies,” Middle East Monitor, November 9, 2013, www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/8246-egypt-turns-to-russia-to-buy-4-billion-weapons-supplies-; Theodore Karasik, “Arms to Egypt, from Russia with Love,” Al-Arabiya, November 20, 2013, http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2013/11/20/Arms-to-Egypt-from-Russia-with-love; “Government refuses Russia's request to set up a military base in Montenegro,” Independent Balkan News Agency, December 20, 2013, www.balkaneu.com/government-refuses-russias-request-set-military-base-montenegro/.
- Henk Houweling and Mehdi Parvizi Amineh (eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security, and Development (Leiden, 2004), p. 15.
- Fehim Tastekin, Washington, Al-Monitor website, February 9, 2014, FBIS SOV, February 9, 2014.
- Stephen Blank, “Russia's High-Stakes Game in Iraq: Expanding Their Role in the Middle East,” Second Line of Defense website, January 19, 2014, www.sldinfo.com/russias-high-stakes-game-in-iraq-expanding-their-role-in-the-middle-east/.
- Zachary Keck, “Saudi Arabia May Buy Pakistani-Chinese Fighter Jets,” The Diplomat website, January 24, 2014, http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/saudi-arabia-may-buy-pakistani-chinese-fighter-jets/; “Saudi Nuclear Weapons ‘on order’ From Pakistan,” BBC News Middle East website, November 6, 2013, www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24823846.
- Stephen Blank, “Russia Seeks Naval and Air Bases in Cyprus,” Eurasia Daily Monitor, July 17, 2013; Jean Christou, “Greece and Russia rally behind Cyprus,” Cyprus MaU, October 2, 2011; “Turkey, Israel, Greece and Russia Mobilizing over Cyprus,” www.Asianews.it, October 5, 2011; Moscow, Interfax website, May 7, 2012, FBIS SOV.
- Corey Johnson and B. Matthew Derrick, “A Splintered Heartland: Russia, Europe and the Geopolitics of Networked Energy Infrastructure,” Geopolitics, XVII: 3 (2012), 495.
- Gearan and Morris, op. cit.
- “Border Alert: Nuke war risk rising, Russia warns,” http://rt.com/politics/makarov-nuclear-russia-nato-575/, November 17, 2011.
- Ibid.; Roger N. McDermott, “General Makarov Highlights the ‘Risk’ of Nuclear Conflict,” Valdai Discussion Club website, December 8, 2011, http://valdaiclub.com/defense/35840.html.
- “Border alert: Nuke war risk is rising, Russia warns,” http://rt.com/politics/makarov-nuclear-russia-nato-575/, November 17, 2011; Roger N. McDermott, op. cit.; Andrei Lebedev, “Yuri Baluevsky: The Russian Military Has a Chance to Straighten Its Spine,” Izvestiya, March 2, 2005; Interfax website, March 20, 2012, FBIS SOV.
- Andrei Lebedev, op.cit.
- For example, “Russia fears fighters waging jihad in Syria could bring terror to Caucasus,” The Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2013, www.jpost.com/International/Russia-fears-fighters-waging-jihad-in-Syria-could-bring-terror-to-Caucasus-331706.
- “Medvedev Hints at Nuclear War if West Intervenes in Sovereign States,” Global Security Newswire, May 18, 2012, www.nti.org/gsn/article/russia-hints-nuclear-war-fallout-if-west-intervenes-syria/.
- “Russia Would Use Nukes to Stave Off Threats—General Staff,” RIA Novosti, February 15, 2012, http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20120215/171329091.html; “Russia Might Need to Increase Nuclear Arsenal, Defense Official Says,” Global Security Newswire, February 6, 2012, www.nti.org/gsn/article/russia-might-need-larger-nuclear-arsenal-defense-official-says/.
- Mansur Mirovalev, “Russians Warn of Pre-Emptive Strike Against Missile Defense System,” Associated Press, May 3, 2012.
- Jacob Kipp, “Russia's Nuclear Posture and the Threat that Dares Not Speak Its Name,” Russia's Nuclear Weapons, Past, Present, and Future, Stephen J. Blank (ed.) (Carlisle Barracks, 2011).
- “Rogozin: ‘The Forward Movement of Russian Oboronki Products is the Most Important of Supporting and Capitalizing on Russia's Relations with Other Countries.” Interfax website, December 11, 2013, FBIS SOV.
- Stephen J. Blank, “Russia Seeks Naval and Air Bases in Cyprus,” Eurasia Daily Monitor, July 17, 2013; Stephen Blank, “Russia's Growing Ties with Vietnam,” The Diplomat, http://thediplomat.com/2013/09/russias-growing-ties-with-vietnam/, September 19, 2013.
- Karasik, op. cit.
- “For Russia, $4.3 Billion Arms Deal with Iraq Is Vital,” www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2013/07/16/For-Russia-43-billion-arms-deal-with-Iraq-is-vital/UPI-16011374001195/, July 16, 2013.
- Bobo Lo, “Russia's Eastern Direction—Distinguishing the Real from the Vertical,” Russia.NEI. Reports No. 17, Institut Francais des Relations Internationales, 2014, www.ifri.org/?page=contribution-detail&id=7952, p. 21.
- Thomas Gomart, “NATO-Russia: Is the ‘Russian Question’ European?” Politique Etrangère English Edition, No. 4 (2009), 132.
- Sergei Lavrov, “Russia's Foreign Policy Autonomy Is an Unconditional Imperative” [Russian] Moskovskiye Novosti, January 19, 2007, www.mn.ru/issue.php?2007-1-56.
- James Sherr, Hard Diplomacy and Soft Coercion: Russia's Influence Abroad (London, 2013), pp. 61–62.
- Susan Stewart, “The EU, Russia and Less Common Neighborhood,” SWP Comments, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, January, 2014, pp. 2–3.
- Quoted in Gordon G. Chang, “How China and Russia Threaten the World,” Commentary, (June, 2007), 29.
- Stephen Blank, “Putin Embraces Double Standard in Middle East Crisis,” Eurasia Daily Monitor, July 20, 2006.
- Marianna Belenkaya, “Russia Hopes Palestinian Unity Will Be Restored,” Moscow, RIA Novosti August 1, 2007, FBIS SOV.
- Vladimir Radyuhin, “Russia backs Abbas, talks to Hamas,” The Hindu, August 1, 2007, www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/russia-backs-abbas-talks-to-hamas/article1883592.ece; Avi Issacharoff, “Hamas official: Russia invited us to Moscow in coming days,” Haaretz, August 3, 2007; Interfax, January 21, 2008, FBIS SOV, January 21, 2008; Moscow, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Internet Version, in English, January 23, 2008, FBIS SOV.
- “Moscow Hopes Hamas Will Sign Up to Previous Agreements,” Interfax, March 3, 2006; “No Pressure Exerted while Discussing ‘Road Map—Hamas Delegation Member,” Interfax, March 3, 2006.
- “Turkey, Russia Call for Talks with Hamas,” China Daily, May 13, 2010, www.englihs.cri.cn/6966/2010/05/13/189s/569393.
- Shimon Briman, “Interview with Senator Mikhail Magelov” [Russian], www.Izrus.com, January 27, 2010, FBIS SOV.
- “Hard Talk Awaits Lavrov in DC,” Kommersant, March 3, 2006, www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=654562.
- “Israeli intel: Hamas has amassed 5,000 rockets since 2009 war,” www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_hamas0031_01_18.asp, January 28, 2010.
- “Hamas Chief; “No ‘Prospect’ of Israeli—Arab Peace Deals,” Einnews, February 9, 2010.
- Interfax, December 9, 2009, FBIS SOV.
- “Israel slams Medvedev's Hamas call,” www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2010/05/201051365834469314.html, May 13, 2010.
- Zvi Magen, “Russia between Terrorism and Foreign Policy,” Institute for National Security Studies, April 18, 2010, April 21, 2010.
- Moscow, Rossiya TV February 9, 2006, FBIS SOV; Pavel K. Baev, “Moscow's Initiative: Your Terrorist Is Our Dear Guest,” Eurasia Daily Monitor, February 13, 2006.
- Ibid.
- “Russia to Urge Hamas to Abandon Radicalism—Russian ME Envoy,” February 10, 2006, www.kuna.net.kw; “Lavrov Asks Mish'al to Sign Reconciliation Agreement Quickly, PA Rejects Arab Pressure Before Hamas Signs Egyptian Document” [Arabic], Qudsnet, February 9, 2010, FBIS SOV; ITAR-TASS, February 8, 2010, FBIS SOV.
- Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel Television, February 13, 2010, FBIS SOV; ITAR-TASS, February 8, 2010, FBIS SOV; ITAR-TASS in English, November 7, 2008, FBIS SOV.
- “Hamas leader says Chechnya is Russia's ‘internal problem,’ Chechen rebels protest,” Associated Press, March 5, 2006.
- Vitaly Portnikov, “Promises to Palestine,” Moscow, www.polikom.ru, January 11, 2008, FBIS SOV, January 11, 2008.
- Interfax, March 10, 2010, FBIS SOV.
- Herb Keinon, “Interview with Andrei Demidov,” The Jerusalem Post, February 16, 2007, FBIS SOV.
- Barak Ravid and News Agencies, “Israel to Russia: Hamas is like the Chechen terrorists,” www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-russia-hamas-is-like-the-chechen-terrorists-1.289918, May 13, 2010.