... interests of global, regional and local powers have been clashing for the last six years, Syria has become a crucial regional issue. This is why Syrian crisis resolution will have a huge impact on the entire region and will help to bring stability to the Middle East.
Recent Russia-Turkey rapprochement, the formation of the Ankara-Moscow-Tehran triumvirate, their cooperation in Syria and the newly negotiated
ceasefire agreement
–provide a good chance to create a new trend in the regional security ...
... small and medium-sized businesses, universities, the media and a wide range on non-governmental organizations. Moscow has a list of “homework assignments” for its relations with India that must been handed in for marking in 2017.
Surprises in the Middle East
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Ivan Timofeev:
2016 – Contours of the New Reality
Late 2016 brought a number of surprises in the Middle East. With the help of Russia, the Syrian forces recaptured Aleppo. Russia, Turkey and ...
... one should note that the election of President Trump fits perfectly into the overall picture that currently dominates the political thinking in the Kremlin. It is yet another link in a long chain of recent events – including the implosion of the Middle East, the rise of the right in Europe, Brexit, and others – indicating to Vladimir Putin that he is fundamentally correct about global trends, and that Barack Obama and Angela Merkel are fundamentally wrong. Second, Republicans have traditionally ...
... nor enough self-restraint for this. In Syria, Russia and the United States found themselves on the brink of open conflict and a new round in the war of sanctions. In this sense 2016 also cleared the air. The West has to take Russia into account in the Middle East, but will not become its strategic ally or even a partner in the foreseeable future. The West will maintain ties with Russia wherever it cannot do without them. It will make episodic attempts to isolate Moscow in other areas. The past year ...
The dismantling of state and governance systems in certain Arab countries has resulted in the fact that such non-Arab nations, as Iran, Turkey and Israel, are becoming the new center of power in the Middle East, said professor Vitaly Naumkin.
According to him, the current trend risks turning into a catastrophe for the entire Middle East region.
"The dismantling of state and governance systems in the Middle East began in the beginning of the ...
... deeper involved in fighting in Syria. What should the Trump Administration do to help resolving this protracted conflict?
Jiri Valenta:
Rather than fight Russia and Assad, Trump should, and likely will, recognize that his most immediate task in the Middle East is to seek great power collaboration in ending the “geopolitical Chernobyl” that is the Syrian civil war (to use General David Petraeus’s words). The war is an Islamist hotbed radiating across the Middle East and attracting ...
... Russian Federation, Andrey Kortunov, Director General, RIAC, Irina Zvyagelskaya and Alexander Shumilin, RIAC experts, and German Embassy to Russia employees took part in the meeting.
The following issues were discussed: situation in Syria and in the Middle East, possible resolutions of the Syrian conflict, perspective areas for Russia-West regional partnership, probable role of the USA in the Middle East, Donald Trump joining the office.
... debate.
Russia was represented at the Debate by
Ruslan Mamedov
,
Program Assistant
, and RIAC experts:
Elena Suponina
, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies,
Alexander Shumilin
, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts at RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies, Andrey Bystritsky, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, and Anna Starkova, Adviser to the Executive Director of the Foundation....
What decisions can we expect from Donald Trump’s new team on the Middle East? The further aggravation of the situation in Syria, the U.S. policy with respect to its allies as well as the problem of the Iranian nuclear programme all remain highly topical issues on the Middle East agenda. Vasily Kuznetsov, RIAC expert ...
... momentum, there is little doubt that the fate of radical Islamists in Syria and Iraq is sealed. This makes the issue of the two countries’ postwar state structure particularly important. Who will take responsibility for the future of the two key Middle Eastern nations? How will they do so?
In early October 2016 Russia once again
vetoed
the French-drafted resolution on Syria co-sponsored by Spain calling for an end to all military flights over Aleppo. At the same time the Russian draft resolution ...
