On July 13, 2020, a regular meeting of the U.S.–Russia Middle East Dialogue Group was held online. The event was organized by Washington Middle East Institute in partnership with Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the U.S. Department of Defense.
On July 13, 2020, a regular meeting of the U.S.–Russia Middle East Dialogue Group was held online. The event was organized by Washington Middle East Institute in partnership with Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Dialogue meetings are held regularly twice a year from July 2016. The aim of the U.S.-Russia Middle East Dialogue group is to exchange unofficial opinions on the situation in Syria, discuss the possibilities of reducing the intensity of hostilities and options for a political settlement, analyze the prospects for Russia-the U.S. cooperation in and around Syria, and elaborate specific proposals on Syrian issues for the administration offices of Russia and the U.S..
The dialog group brings together a core group of American and Russian experts in the regional studies, who represent different research centers of the two countries. Aleksandr Aksenyonok, RIAC Vice-President; Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Vasily Kuznetsov, Director of RAS Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member; Vitaly Naumkin, President of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member; and RIAC experts: Irina Zvyagelskaya, Nikolay Surkov, and Maxim Suchkov, attended the meeting.
