In siding with Armenia, India also enjoys support from Greece. The country has many an axe to grind with Turkey over disputed gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean.
Manufactured by Bengaluru's Tonbo Imaging, these sights are among several defence-related equipment Armenia has bought from India to beef up its military after losing war with Azerbaijan.
This comes at a time when Pakistan, Turkey & Azerbaijan have been intensifying trilateral cooperation. Armenia has emerged as a key geopolitical partner for New Delhi in recent years.
Armenian Defence minister Suren Papikyan met Rajnath Singh on sidelines of DefExpo in Gandhinagar. In September, Armenia had signed deal for Pinaka rocket launchers with India.
The government-to-government contract, valued at about Rs 2,000 cr, is learnt to have been signed earlier this month. Supplies to be fast-tracked according to Armenia's requirement.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
Very simplystic write up, based on knowledge not directly from the ground but based on western distorted thesis.. Western formula to break Georgia from Russia collapsed and same would happen in Armenia, because of very deep people to people relationship, also like Georgian economy, Armenian economy heavily linked and dependent on Russia. For the west to break those links is almost impossible. West can never be a substitute to Russia in this part of this world. In Ukraine West succeeded partially because of the close link of Western Ukrainians to fascist Germany historically. US along with NATO allies based their geopolitical games on support from west Ukrainians. And it looks like now USA with its NATO allies at best would be able break Ukraine in two or more number of parts. Western strategy of buying top leadership along with top corrupt bureaucracy in USSR and subsequently in the CIS countries cannot work in the longterm as it is being proved with subsequent events. In just 30 years how common people in all over CIS countries has become so much anti American, it is simply unbelievable, this can be compared to the Pakistan and Arab world.
Very simplystic write up, based on knowledge not directly from the ground but based on western distorted thesis.. Western formula to break Georgia from Russia collapsed and same would happen in Armenia, because of very deep people to people relationship, also like Georgian economy, Armenian economy heavily linked and dependent on Russia. For the west to break those links is almost impossible. West can never be a substitute to Russia in this part of this world. In Ukraine West succeeded partially because of the close link of Western Ukrainians to fascist Germany historically. US along with NATO allies based their geopolitical games on support from west Ukrainians. And it looks like now USA with its NATO allies at best would be able break Ukraine in two or more number of parts. Western strategy of buying top leadership along with top corrupt bureaucracy in USSR and subsequently in the CIS countries cannot work in the longterm as it is being proved with subsequent events. In just 30 years how common people in all over CIS countries has become so much anti American, it is simply unbelievable, this can be compared to the Pakistan and Arab world.