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91. Sergey Glazyev, “Who Stands to Win?” Russia in Global Affairs , 27 December 2013, http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/number/Who-Stands-to-Win-16288; “Vyacheslav Kovalenko: Vstupleniye Armenii v Evraziyskiy soyuz stalo by dlya nee bol’shim blagom,” PanArmenian.net, 4 December 2011, http://www.panarmenian.net/rus/interviews/85626/.

92. Delcour and Kostanyan, “Towards a Fragmented Neighbourhood.”

93. “Nuclear Power in Armenia,” http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-A-F/Armenia/.

94. Natalya Oganova, “Rossiysko-armyanskiye otnosheniya nakhoditsya na bespretsedentno vysokom urovne,” NoyevKovcheg , no 8 (May 2014), http://www.noev-kovcheg.ru/mag/2014-08/4466.html.

95. Sargis Arutyunyan, “Posol RF predlagayet ‘neitrolizovat’’ NPO, ‘vbivayushchiye klin’ v rossiysko-armyanskiye otnosheniya,” rus.azatutyun.am, 7 May 2014, http://rus.azatutyun.am/content/article/25376316.html.

96. Tigran Avetisian, “Russian Senator Slams Pro-EU NGOs in Armenia,” azatutyun.am, 27 February 2015, http://www.azatutyun.mobi/a/26872870.html.

97. Interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , cited in Sheperd, “The United States and Europe’s Last Dictatorship,” p. 74.

98. “Lukashenko pro zapret na postavki belorusskoy produktsii: My fakticheski odna strana. Zachem vy eto delayete?” Tut.by, 27 November 2014, http://news.tut.by/economics/425473.html.

99. Manaev, The Future of Belarus , p. 56.

100. “‘Russkiy Mir’ otkroyet tsentr v Breste,” Regnum, 2 December 2014, http://www.regnum.ru/news/fd-abroad/belarus/1872496.html.

101. Usov interview.

102. Predstavitel’stvo Rossotrudnichestva v Respublike Belarus’, “O predstavitel’stve,” http://blr.rs.gov.ru/node/1.

103. The Pahonia (or Vytis ) was the coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, of which Belarus was an important part.

104. Jurkonis interview.

105. Kravchenko, Belarus na Rasputiye , pp. 303–7.

106. Oksana Yanovskaya, “Inostrantsy budut zhit’ v Belarusi po novym pravilam,” Naviny.by, 6 April 2010, http://naviny.by/rubrics/society/2010/04/06/ic_articles_116_167351/.

107. “Portret belorusskogo gastarbaytera,” Delovaya gazeta , 16 December 2014, http://bdg.by/news/society/31946.html; Andrei Yeliseyeu, “Response to the Research Report ‘The Impact of Labour Migration on Belarus: A Demographic Perspective,’” CARIM-East Analytic and Synthetic Notes 2012/13, 2012, http://www.carim-east.eu/media/CARIM-East-AS2012-13.pdf.

108. Vladimir Stupishin, Moya missiya v Armeniyu. 1992–94 (Moscow: Academia, 2001), http://armenianhouse.org/stupishin/docs-ru/mission/48.html.

109. Ovannes Nikogosyan, “Armeniya mezhdu dvumya Evro: Evropa ili Evr-azia,” The Analitikon , November 2011, http://theanalyticon.com/?p=1127&lang=ru.

110. “End of ‘Compatriots’? Government says Russian Immigration Program Unacceptable for Armenia,” ArmeniaNow.com, 4 October 2012, http://www.armenianow.com/society/40234/russian_program_compatriots_concerns_armenia_labor_migration.

111. “Yeritasardakan nakhadzerrnut’yune pahanjum e p’akel ‘Hamyerkratsiner’ ts’ragire,” azatutyun.am, 2 August 2011, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/24284913.html; “Mtavorakannere ahatsang en hnchetsnum,” azatutyun.am, 1 July 2007, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/24252709.html.

112. “Hayastane ‘k’aghak’akan makardakum’ klutsi ‘Hamyerkratsiner’ tsragri khndire,” azatutyun.am, 22 July 2011, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/24273494.html.

113. “‘Hamyerkratsiner’ tsragrov HH marzerits Rusastan e meknel 600 entanik’, nor tsragir,” news.am, 11 August 2011, http://news.am/arm/news/70646.html.

114. The USAID-supported Eurasia Partnership Foundation was among the most visible.

115. “‘Hamyerkratsiner’—i vtange tegh hasav (tesanyut),” a1+, 12 October 2012, http://www.a1plus.am/64516.html.

116. “Hayastani karravarut’yune dimakayum e rrusakan ‘Hamyerkratsi’ tsragrin,” panorama.am, 3 October 2012, http://www.panorama.am/am/politics/2012/10/03/government/.

117. “End of ‘Compatriots’?”

118. “Derr dimum chen endunum,” armtimes.com, 24 May 2013, http://www.armtimes.com/hy/6500; “Hayastanits Rusastan ugharkoh rusakan ‘Hamyerkratsiner’ tsragir sarretsvel e,” news.am, 22 January 2014, http://news.am/arm/news/190319.html.

119. “Hayastani bnakchut’yun 10 tokose Rusastani q’akha’qatsiut’yun uni,” azatutyun.am, 21 March 2014, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/25305438.html.

120. “End of ‘Compatriots’?”

121. “Hayastani bnakchut’yun 10 tokose Rusastani q’akha’qatsiut’yun uni.”

122. Dmitry Travin, “Belarusian ‘Godfather’ Falls Out with His Masters,” OpenDemocracy, 12 July 2010, https://www.opendemocracy.net/dmitry-travin/belarusian-godfather-falls-out-with-his-masters.

123. “TV-Propaganda and Life,” IISEPS, 10 October 2014, http://iiseps.org/analitica/812/lang/en.

124. “Negativnaya dinamika doveriya institutam”; “TV-Propaganda and Life.”

125. Jurkonis interview.

126. Konstantin Amelyushkin, “Belorusskiy oppozitsioner: Lukashenko nabirayet ochki ne bez pomoshchi ES,” 25 November 2014, http://ru.delfi.lt/news/politics/belorusskij-oppozicioner-lukashenko-nabiraet-ochki-ne-bez-pomoschi-es.d?id=66491042#ixzz3MFcBNLce.

127. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988).

128. “Gerakshorgh kartsik’: Hayastan-Gharabagh sahmanin (irakan) mak’saket chi lini,” ArmeniaNow.com, 3 June 2014, https://www.armenianow.com/hy/economy/54888/armenia_karabakh_eurasian_union_customs_border; “Maksayin mtahozut’yunner: Gharabaghi het sahmanin hnaravor maksaketi,” ArmeniaNow.com, 6 October 2014, http://armenianow.com/hy/karabakh/57358/armenia_karabakh_customs_border_eurasian_union.

129. “Gharabaghi yev Hayastani michev maksaket chi divelu: Ekonomikayi naharar,” henaran.am, 15 October 2014, http://henaran.am/news_view.php?post_id=48778.

130. “Enddimadirnere tsankanum en gharabaghi hantsnel,” October 2013, http://www.iravunk.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10567:2013-10-16-16-02-48; “Rus portsaget: Hayastani yev Gharabaghi sahmanin maksaket, t’ekuzev dzevakan, bayts klini,” azatutyun.am, 29 September 2014, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/26611093.html; “Khmagrakan: Gharabaghi prkutyune Gharabaghe ‘Gharabaghi prkoghnerits’ prklene,” ilur.am, 19 October 2013, http://www.ilur.am/news/view/19934.html.

131. “Ex-Russian Envoy Warns Armenia Over European Integration Drive,” azatutyun.am, 8 August 2013, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/25040228.html.

132. Hayk Hovhannisyan, “Russia Tightens Grip as Armenia Moves Closer to Europe,” asbarez.com, 1 August 2013, http://asbarez.com/112324/russia-tightens-grip-as-armenia-moves-closer-to-europe/.

133. “Armenian Parliament Ratifies Treaty on Joining Eurasian Economic Union,” Tass, 4 December 2014, http://itar-tass.com/en/economy/765194.

134. Thomas de Waal, “An Offer Sargsyan Could Not Refuse,” Eurasia Outlook, Carnegie Moscow Center, 4 September 2013, http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=52841.

135. Zulfugar Agayev, “Azeri-Russian Arms Trade $4 Billion Amid Tension With Armenia,” BloombergBusiness, 13 August 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-08-13/azeri-russian-arms-trade-4-billion-amid-tension-with-armenia.

136. Ibid.

137. In the past, Lukashenko has expressed concern about separatism only regarding the Grodno region, but the potential instigator here was perceived to be Poland, not Russia. “Lukashenko zanyalsya poiskami proyavleniy separatizma v Belarusi,” ua-ru.info, 16 November 2014, http://www.ua-ru.info/news/37017-lukashenko-zanyalsya-poiskami-proyavleniy-separatizma-v-belarusi.html.