... distinct civilization. In fact, it is the first official Russian document to do so. It also radically transforms the priorities of Moscow's diplomacy, with the countries of the post-Soviet ‘near abroad’ on top, followed by China and India, Asia and the Middle East, and Africa and Latin America.
Western Europe and the United States rank next to last, just above the Antarctic.
Unlike in the previous decade, when Russia’s
“turn to the east”
was first announced, these are not just words. Our trade ...
... global and regional challenges. The welcome remarks were delivered by Mohammed al-Sudani, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq.
The forum was attended by more than a thousand public and political figures, scholars, experts, and journalists from the Middle East, as well as from the other regions of the world. In total, representatives from 35 countries took part in the meeting.
Within the framework of the forum, a number of expert discussions were held. In particular, there was a discussion on the ...
Report No. 91 / 2024
Report No. 91 / 2024
Owing to contradictions between regional actors, socioeconomic problems, and political instability in some countries, the situation in the Middle East remains tense. Given such circumstances, political and economic trends in the Middle East require a degree of theoretical conceptualization. The authors of this report analyze the current political and economic trends in the region’s Arab ...
... Affairs Council (RIAC). During the meeting, RIAC Program Coordinator Ivan Bocharov presented RIAC projects on the MENA region. The meeting was held as a part of the research seminar of the WEIA of the HSE University “Understanding the contemporary Middle East and South Asia (Arab countries, Israel, Iran, Turkey)”.
The meeting was also attended by the head of the seminar, Senior Lecturer at the WEIA of the HSE University Grigory Lukyanov.
... Statehood”
On February 16, 2024, the Russian Council for International Affairs (RIAC) and Institute of Oriental Studies (IOS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) held an expert discussion “Iraq in the Context of the Regional Trends in the Middle East”. During the meeting Ruslan Mamedov, Scientific Advisor of the Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the IOS RAS presented the monograph “Iraq at the Beginning ...
The substantive basis of the conference was the RIAC report “Regional Trends in the Middle East: Political and Economic Dynamics”, authored by Russian experts on Middle Eastern issues
On February 12, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a conference “Regional dynamics in the Middle East in the context of ...
... known that Islam does not approve of card games. It is believed card games lead to gambling and create terrible addictions that distract people from spiritual growth and improvement. However, the complex, confusing, and often dramatic events in the Middle East inevitably evoke associations with it being a card game, where the stakes are high and the deck is intricately shuffled.
Andrey Kortunov:
Russia in the MENA Region amid the Ukrainian Crisis
Following this somewhat arbitrary analogy, the role ...
Many developments that significantly impacted the destinies of the regional players, non-regional actors, and many people around the world have unfolded during the year that followed the publication of our paper titled “The Middle East and the Future of a Polycentric World” (February 2023).
Many of these developments appeared to continue the positive trends that we saw a year or two earlier. Saudi Arabia – Iran relations were officially normalised. Syria’s membership ...
... world of Islam mean a time-tested, trust-based cooperation, with the Islamic dimension always present in the national foreign policy
The year of 2023 may well have been a year of further consolidation of Russia’s pivot to the East, especially in the Middle East and across the South, as well as to the Islamic world. Amid the pressure of Western sanctions, Moscow managed not only to retain its positions in the Islamic world but also to boost its bilateral ties with Muslim states, many of which are ...
On December 14, 2023, within the framework of the XVIII Conference of Arabists “Readings by I. M. Smilyanskaya” at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS RAS), the 2nd meeting of the section “The Long 20th Century in the History of Arab Countries” was held
On December 14, 2023, within the framework of the XVIII Conference of Arabists “Readings by I. M. Smilyanskaya” at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS RAS), the 2nd meeting...
