... government. In fact, OPEC oil producers would be forgiven for expecting that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use this as an excuse after any non-compliance with a coordinated output cut is detected.
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Maxim Suchkov:
The Middle East between the U.S. and Russia:
Potential Traps for Moscow
Even if Russia decided to keep its word, and its oil companies listened to government orders, the consequences are likely to be limited because of the barriers to OPEC coordinating its ...
... for centuries was a state with significant indigenous Moslem population; this population helped to build additional bridges to the Arab world.
The Soviet period of the Russian history brought to life an entirely new level of interaction with the Arab Middle East. The Soviet Union from the very beginning was a strong champion and supporter of the Arab national liberation. It would not be an over exaggeration to say that after the Second World war many Arab nations relied on the Soviet Union as their ...
... with Assad as the president is paramount to Russia in mid-term, even if the allies disagree on key issues, such as the military strategy and the ceasefire deal. Moscow is being guided by its own national interests and an ambition of a key player in Middle Eastern affairs, rather than any commitment to Assad’s political future.
Putin’s strategy in Syria: Rooting out opposition or fighting extremism?
Mainstream political-military analysis that looks at the strategy Russia has employed ...
In the historical-philosophical perspective, one has every right to consider the transformation that has thrown the Middle East into chaos as the revival of premodernism and the primordial forms of societal organization. However, the epoch of postmodernism is not over and will not come to an end until the Western world exists as the most vivid manifestation of pluralism ...
... the Palmyra victory at the Syria talks. It is the continued fight against IS that will become a stumbling block to the negotiation process and a trading tool in Russia’s hands.
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Andrey Kortunov:
Post-Syrian Russia and Middle East
Apart from the overall geopolitical benefit, Moscow urgently seeks to legitimize Assad in the eyes of western political community. Therefore, Moscow will try and give impetus to its idea of an antiterrorist coalition. In fact, this coalition ...
On the historico-philosophical level, the transformation that has plunged the Middle East into chaos can be viewed as the end of the modern world’s postmodern paradigm. In the wake of postmodernism, the shape of the world is still vague, but the Middle Eastern reality makes it possible to describe some of its features.
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Interview with Andrey Kortunov
Russian military presence in Syria makes Russia a pivotal actor in the Middle East. How Russia defines its role in the Middle East? Interview with Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General.
Russia is not a Middle East country, but it has been connected to the region through numerous historic, cultural, economic and humanitarian ...
On March 16, 2016 Ankara hosted a meeting of the Task Force for the “Building Greater Europe” project to discuss the issues of fighting terrorism in the Middle East, various aspects of the immigration crisis, and the problems related to the crisis in Syria.
Russia was represented by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and RIAC member Alexei Gromyko, Director of the RAS Institute of Europe.
The Building ...
... Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Nevertheless, the bloodshed has reached sizable proportions with estimated 6000 dead since March 2015 and it cannot absolutely be underestimated for the gravity and magnitude of geopolitical effects it carries on the the Middle East and the rest of the world.
The war broke out as a confrontation between the Shiite rebels Houthis allied with President Saleh against the Sunni coalition led by President Hadi. The situation, as it often is the case, was not so simple ...
On March 3, 2016 Moscow hosted a roundtable “
Collective Security System in the Middle East: Myth or Reality
” of the Russian International Affairs Council and the Turkish International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (
MIRNaS
).
The event was attended by RIAC Program Director
Ivan Timofeev
; MIRNaS ...
