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71 Bruce Jones. “Russia searches for strategic airbase partner” IHS Jane’s Defense Weekly.
March 4, 2014 http://www.janes.com/article/34916/russia-searches-for-strategic-airbasepartners.
72 Ibid.
73 Ivan Nechepurenko, “Russia Seeks to Reopen Military Bases in Vietnam and Cuba,” New
York times, Ocotber 7, 2016, www.nytimes.com
74 “Russian Defense Minister Vows to Strengthen Navy,” Agence France Presse, August 19,
2014,
75 Moscow, Interfax, in English, June 20, 2014, FBIS SOV, June 20, 2014
76 Moscow, Interfax, in English, May 20, 2014, FBIS SOV, May 20, 2014; Stephen Blank,
“Russian Strategy and Policy in the Middle East,” Israel Journal of Foreign Relations,
VIII, NO. 2, May 2014, pp. 9-25.
77 Captain Thomas S. Fedyszyn, USN, “The Russian Navy ‘Rebalances’ to the
Mediterranean,” Proceedings of the US Naval Institute, December 2013.
78 Stephen Blank, ”The Black Sea and Beyond,” Proceedings of the US Naval Institute,
October, 2015, pp. 36-41.
79 Stephen Blank, “The Meaning of Russia’s Naval Deployments in the Mediterranean,”
Eurasia Daily Monitor, March 4, 2016
80 Bassem Mroue, “Russia Builds Military camp Near Ancient Site In Palmyra,” Associated
Press, May 17, 2016, http://www.cbs46.com/story/31990649/russians-building-armybase-at-syrias-palmyra-site.
81 Sergei Lavrov, “Vneshnepoliticheskaya Samostoyatel’nost’ Rossii Bezuslovnyi Imperativ,”
(Russia’s Foreign Policy Autonomy is an Unconditional Imperative) Moskovskiye
Novosti, January 19, 2007, http://www.mn.ru/issue.php?2007-1-56.
82 Samia Nakhoul, “Syria's Assad Shows No Willingness To Compromise,” Reuters, April 8,
2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-insight-idUSKCN0X50O0
83Toksabay and Solovyov; op. cit.: “Turkey Ready To Cooperate With Russia In Syria;”
Akay, op. cit.; Idiz, op. cit.
84 Trenin, op. cit.
85 “Russia to reach New START ceilings by 2028 (Part 2),” Interfax-AVN, January 14, 2011,
available at http:// business.highbeam.com/407705/article-1G1-246550534/russia-reachnew-start-ceilings-2028.
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