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.
51. Armen Sahakyan, “Threading the Needle: Armenia’s Policy towards the EU and the EAU,” The European Institute, April 2013, http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/173-european-affairs/ea-april-2013/1722-threading-the-needle-armenias-policy-towards-the-eu-and-the-eau.
52. “Vaghe storagrvelu e ‘Guyk’ partk’i dimats’ hamadzaynagire,” azatutyun.am, 16 July 2002, http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1569922.html; Ian McGinnity, “Selling Its Future for Short: Armenia’s Economic and Security Relations with Russia” (Senior thesis, Claremont McKenna College, 2010), pp. 7–8, http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1059&context=cmc_theses.
53. Vladimir Socor, “Armenia’s Giveaways to Russia: From Property-For-Debt to Property-For-Gas,” Eurasia Daily Monitor 3, no. 7 (19 April 2006), http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=31599.
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.