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54. Vitali Silitski, “Belarus in an International Context,” in Belarus and the EU: From Isolation Towards Cooperation , ed. Hans Georg Wieck and Stephan Malerius (Berlin: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2011), p. 15.

55. Ben Judah et al., Dealing With a Post-BRIC Russia (Brussels: ECFR, 2011), http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR44_POST-BRIC_RUSSIA.pdf; “Antey i Volga: Rossiyskiye voyennye bazy na territorii Belarusi,” 19 October 2014, http://1863x.com/antei-volga/; Živilė Dambrauskaitė et al., Belarusian Challenge to the New EU Policy: Ignorance Equals Legitimation (Vilnius: EESC, 2010), http://www.eesc.lt/uploads/news/id452/Belarusian%20Challenge%20to%20the%20New%20EU%20Policy-Ignorance%20Equals%20Legitimation_EN.pdf.

56. “V belorusskom Bobruiske raspolozhitsya rossiyskaya voyennaya baza,” Pravda.ru, 15 October 2014, http://www.pravda.ru/news/world/formerussr/belorussia/15-10-2014/1231181-baza-0/.

57. Belarusian Optical & Mechanical Association, http://www.belomo.by/en/; BalTechExport, http://www.bte.by/en/o-kompanii/; Joint Stock Company, “140th Repair Plant,” http://www.140zavod.org/en.

58. Anna Maria Dyner, “Prospects and Consequences of Military Cooperation between Belarus and Russia,” PISM Bulletin, no. 61 (514) (4 June 2013), http://www.pism.pl/files/?id_plik=13796.

59. Vytis Jurkonis and Tadas Pikčiūnas, “(In)dependent Economy of Belarus Through the Lenses of International Trade and FDI,” in Pranevičiūtė-Neliupšienė et al., Belarusian Regime Longevity , pp. 254–56.

60. Laurynas Jonavičius, “From Russia with Love: Internal Balance of Power in Russia and the Survival of Lukashenko’s Regime,” in Pranevičiūtė-Neliupšienė et al., Belarusian Regime Longevity , p. 238.

61. “Beltransgaz Returns to Gazprom Family,” Gazprom, 4 April 2014, http://www.gazprom.com/press/reports/2012/beltransgaz-photo-reportage/.

62. Silitski, “Belarus in an International Context,” pp. 14–17.

63. Jurkonis interview; “Belorusskiye kompanii nevol’no ‘otmyli’ milliardy rossiyskikh dollarov,” Myfin.by, 12 June 2013, http://myfin.by/stati/view/1711-belorusskie-banki-nevolno-otmyli-milliardy-rossijskih-dollarov.

64. Robin Sheperd, “The United States and Europe’s Last Dictatorship,” in Forbrig et al., Prospects for Democracy in Belarus , p. 74.

65. Vytis Jurkonis, “Kremlin Is Forcing Belarus to Be Part of the Russian World,” svaboda.org, 20 June 2014, http://www.svaboda.org/content/article/25429862.html.

66. Usov interview.

67. Jurkonis, “Kremlin Is Forcing Belarus to Be Part of the Russian World.”

68. Laurynas Jonavičius, “Epilogue,” in Pranevičiūtė-Neliupšienė et al., Belarusian Regime Longevity , p. 318.

69. “Lukashenko dal ukazaniye snizhat’ vliyaniye russkogo yazyka i ukreplyat’ ‘belorusskuyu natsiyu,’” Novorossiya, 25 November 2014, http://novorus.info/news_don/policy_don/30642-lukashenko-dal-ukazanie-snizhat-vliyanie-russkogo-yazyka-i-ukreplyat-belorusskuyu-naciyu.html.

70. Alexander Lukashenko, State of the Nation Address to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly, 22 April 2014.

71. “Belarus’ nachinayet derussifikatsiyu shkol,” Belnovosti, 24 January 2015, http://belnovosti.by/society/34845-belarus-nachinaet-derusifikaciju-shkol.html; “After Decades of Russian Dominance, Belarus Begins to Reclaim Its Language,” The Guardian , 28 January 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/28/-sp-russian-belarus-reclaims-language-belarusian.

72. Jurkonis interview.

73. “Negativnaya dinamika doveriya institutam,” http://iiseps.org/old/12-13-05.html.

74. “Veruyushchikh v Belarusi men’she, chem… pravoslavnykah,” 31 December 2011, http://naviny.by/rubrics/society/2011/12/23/ic_articles_116_176268/.

75. “‘Chernyi internatsional’: Kak Moskva kormit pravye partii po vsemu miru,” The Insider , 27 November 2014, http://theins.ru/politika/2113/.

76. “Svyataya Rus,’” http://www.holyrussia.com/; “Kazaki v Respubliki Belarus,’” http://www.kazaki.by/; “Zapadnaya Rus,’” http://zapadrus.su/; “Ustav ROO ‘Belorusskoye kazachestvo,’” http://belkazak.by/org/ustav.html.

77. Nezavisimyi institut sotsial’no-ekonomicheskikh i politicheskikh issledovanii, “Pobeda kak ob’edinyaushchiy simvol raskolotogo obshchestva,” http://iiseps.org/old/03-12-08.html.

78. See Pavel Shekhtman, “Plamya davnikh pozharov,” Armenian House, 1992, http://www.armenianhouse.org/shekhtman/docs-ru/contents.html.

79. “Hogevor arrachnordnere koch en anum het k’ashel dipukaharnerin,” azatutyun.am, 29 November 2011, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/24404406.html; “Armenian, Azeri Faith Leaders Make Karabakh Pledge,” Today’s Zaman, 27 April 2010, http://www.todayszaman.com/world_armenian-azeri-faith-leaders-make-karabakh-pledge_208622.html.

80. “Fond ‘Russkiy mir’ otkryvayet v Erevane ‘Russkiy tsentr,’” Russkiy Mir, 5 February 2008, http://russkiymir.ru/news/12911/; “Naira Airapetyan: russkiy yazyk v Armenii ne dolzhen byt’ inostrannym,” Russkiy Mir, 29 August 2014, http://www.russkiymir.ru/publications/149085/.

81. “Russkiy yazyk v Armenii ne chuzhoy—predstavitel’ Rossotrudnichestva,” 12 November 2010, http://newsarmenia.ru/arm1/20101112/42341498.html.

82. “Russia’s Chief Propagandist,” Economist , 10 December 2013, http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2013/12/Ukraine; “Nel’zya kul’turno integrirovat’sya v odnom napravlenii, a bezopasnost’ iskat’ v drugom—Kiselev ob Armenii,” Regnum, 12 June 2014, http://regnum.ru/news/fd-abroad/armenia/1813489.html/.

83. “Russkiy yazyk yavlyaetsya opredelennym tegom armyano-rossiyskikh otnoshenii—Ashotyan,” 26 August 2014, http://newsarmenia.ru/society/20140826/43094546.html; “Ministr obrazovaniya Armenii: Armyanskaya molodezh’ nuzhdayetsya v russkom yazyke,” Fond Gorchakova, 13 November 2014, http://gorchakovfund.ru/news/9059/; “K’arravarut’yune rrusats lezvin petakan kark’avidjak shnorhelu anhrajeshtut’yun chi tesnum,” azatutyun.am, 12 June 2014, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/25419398.html; “Armen Arzumanyan: ‘HH nahagahe drakan e verabervum michazgayin chapanishnerov dprots himnadrelun,’” panorama.am, 9 June 2010, http://www.panorama.am/am/education/2010/06/09/armen-arzumanyan/.

84. “Soglasheniye mezhdu Pravitel’stvom Rossiyskoy Federatsii i Pravitel’stvom Respubliki Armeniya ob usloviyakh uchrezhdeniya i deyatel’nosti v gorode Erevane Rossiysko-Armyanskogo universiteta,” http://rau.am/uploads/blocks/0/6/650/files/650_1_soglashenie_old.pdf.

85. “Raskhody na filial MGU v Erevane voz’met na seba Armeniya,” rus.azatutyun.am, 27 August 2014, http://rus.azatutyun.am/content/article/26552713.html.

86. “Dos’e: Rossiysko-armyanskiye otnosheniya,” Tass, 2 December 2013, http://itar-tass.com/info/803765.

87. Sahakyan, “Threading the Needle: Armenia’s Policy towards the EU and the EAU.”

88. Laure Delcour and Hrant Kostanyan, “Towards a Fragmented Neighbourhood: Policies of the EU and Russia and Their Consequences for the Area That Lies In Between,” CEPS Essays No. 17, 17 October 2014, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2513712; Sergey Minasyan, “Russian-Armenian Relations: Affection or Pragmatism?” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 269, July 2013, http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/russian-armenian-relations-affection-or-pragmatism.

89. Sergey Markedonov, “Russia and Armenia in the South Caucasus Security Context: Basic Trends and Hidden Contradictions,” in Palonkorpi and Iskandaryan, Armenia’s Foreign and Domestic Politics , pp. 29–36.

90. “Nevstupleniye Armenii v EAES moglo by privesti k kollapsu i potere $3–4 mlrd. za pyat’ let—ekonomist,” 29 November 2014, http://www.newsarmenia.ru/politics/20141129/43132272.html.