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Index
A
Abkhazia
Adamsky, Dima
Afghanistan
FSKN operations
humanitarian aid to
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
war in
air force
Syrian operations
Al Qaeda
Alexander I
Alexander II
Alexander III
Alfa
Allison, Roy
Ambartsumov, Evgenii
Arab Spring
Arbatov, Aleksei
armed forces
Cold War
conscripts
corruption and crime
current strength
draft evasion
education and training
image and status problem
inter-service exercises and operations
manpower problems
mass mobilization military
mixed recruitment system
post-Soviet neglect
professionalization
rapid reaction forces
Soviet legacy force
see also modernization programme (2008)
Armenia
Armenian earthquake (1988)
arms exports
arms race, renewed
Art, Robert
Assad, Bashar
Averre, Derek
B
Babak, Vladimir
Baev, Pavel
balance of power, European
Balkans
multilateral peacekeeping operations
see also Kosovo War
ballistic-missile submarines
Baltic States
CIS opt-out
incorporation into Soviet Union
NATO and EU members
Russian military incursion, likelihood of
Baranovsky, Vladimir
Bartles, Charles
Belarus
Benbow, Tim
Bennett, Gordon
Beslan hostage crisis (2004)
bilateralism
Binnendijk, Hans
bipolarity
end of
Black Sea Fleet
Blank, Stephen
Bogdanov, Konstantin
Bogdanov, S.A.
Border Guard Service
Border Guard Troops
border security
‘linear’ protection, abandonment of
Bradshaw, Michael
Braithwaite, Rodric
Breedlove, Philip
Brezhnev, Leonid
brinkmanship and posturing
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
buffer zone
Bugryi, Maxim
Bukkvoll, Tor
C
C4ISR capabilities
Castlereagh, Viscount
centralization of state control
Charap, Samuel
Chechnya
first war (1994–96)
FSKN operations
human rights abuses
operational failures
second war (1999–2000)
Wahhabist insurgents
Chekinov, S.G.
Cherkesov, Viktor
Chernobyl nuclear reactor incident (1986)
China
current military strength
defence budget
CIS see Commonwealth of Independent States
civil defence troops
Cold War
bipolar contest
military personnel
‘new Cold War’ threat
Russian superpower status
collapse of Soviet Union
crisis of statehood and identity
military material assets, loss of
security challenges
Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO)
Joint Rapid Reaction Force
‘colour revolutions’
Colton, Timothy
Common European Home concept
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
acceptance of Russian military involvement
‘colour revolutions’
Council of Defence Ministers
creation of
ethnic conflicts
membership
moderate nationalist view of use of military force
‘peacekeeping’ operations
Russian ‘sphere of influence’
Russian strategic interests, enduring
Russia’s imperial legacy and
Concert of Europe
Congress of Vienna
Connolly, Richard
conscription
constitutional crisis (1993)
‘contactless’ wars
Cooper, Julian
corruption
Council of Europe
counterinsurgency operations
coup attempt (1991)
crime, organised
see also drug crime and trafficking
Crimea
annexation of (2014)
hybrid warfare strategy
rapid reaction forces in
Crimean War (1853–5)
Cross, Sharyl
cruise missiles
Customs Union
cybersecurity and cyberwarfare
D
Dannat, Richard
Davies, Lance
dedovshchina
defence budgets
cuts
growth
‘guns-or-butter’ dilemma
share of GDP
under Putin
under Yeltsin
Western
defence industry
arms exports
import dependency and import substitution
problems
reliance on other CIS states
research and development (R&D)
State Armament Programme 2011–25
Denmark
derzhavnost
see also great power status
Desmond, Dennis
disaster management
Dobrolyubov, Nikolay
domestic order and regime stability
see also force structures
Donbas
Donetsk
draft evasion
drug crime and trafficking
counter-drug operations
State Anti-Drug Committee
see also Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade (FSKN)
E
Echevarria, Antulio J.
economic downturns and recovery
economic sanctions
Egnell, Robert
emergency response operations
energy exports
energy policies