1. How to Stop Doing Business with Russia's Arm Exporter
- Publication Date:
- 06-2013
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Human Rights First
- Abstract:
- As part of the United States plan to begin military withdrawals from Afghanistan in 2014, the Department of Defense (DOD) contracted with the Russian state owned arms dealer, Rosoboronexport, to provide helicopters to the Afghanistan National Security Forces (ANSF). DOD has continued and expanded its purchases from Rosoboronexport even while acknowledging that the Russian arms dealer has enabled mass atrocities by supplying Syria's Bashar al-Assad with weapons that have been used to murder Syrian civilians.
- Topic:
- Arms Control and Proliferation, Economics, Human Rights, and Armed Struggle
- Political Geography:
- Russia, Europe, Middle East, and Asia