Region: Middle East

The Russia-Middle East policy has demonstrated considerable resilience, as has the regional system of international relations

If the world does not want to pay a bigger price, they will have to push for a negotiated solution as soon as possible

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the RT channel, Moscow, November 15, 2023

The new world order requires responsibility and action from those who want to secure their place in it

For more than 30 years, Washington has failed to build a just order, which is why we are now experiencing unprecedented crises

In the coming years, Russia’s policy in the Eurasian space will most likely be aimed at avoiding excessive obligations, but at the same time strengthening relations with those countries that are really interested in cooperating with Moscow, as well as strengthening the influence of broad international institutions, particularly the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

RIAC and ECSSR Policy Brief # 48 / 2023

In the meantime, the guns continue to rattle and the voices of diplomats are hard to hear, especially from faraway lands

The crisis in the Middle East, may open a new chapter in how most countries around the world perceive the policies of the United States and Europe, as well as make it impossible to return to the previous world order

The attempt by Biden to portray Hamas and Putin as dual threats against “Western democracy” is obviously a desperate reaction to the loss of support for the Ukraine gambit

The cost of a conflict with Russia for the United States will be measured not only and not so much by support for Ukraine, but also by the enormous cost of containing the Russian-Chinese tandem

The goal of the round table was to discuss the dynamics of quadrilateral cooperation in the context of regional trends in the Middle East. The meeting was attended by leading experts from Russia, Iran, Turkey and Syria