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Interview with Ambassador Pyotr Stegny Interview Well-known Russian scholar and diplomat Pyotr Stegny , a RIAC member, speaks on current events in Turkey. He regards the confrontation between the government and protesters as the conflict between Erdogan's ruling style and the pluralistic and democratic Turkish political culture. "The situation is rather similar to the recent marches in New ...
... President Igor Ivanov, director of the Institute of Oriental Studies Vitaly Naumkin and GRF President Memduh Karakullukçu. Addressing the participants of the meeting, the heads of the three organizations emphasized the key role played by Russia and Turkey in the processes currently taking place in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus. During the meeting the experts discussed a wide range of issues of the Russian-Turkish cooperation. The following issues were on the agenda during the debates: ...
Army of the new Middle East "owner" Over the entire history of the Republic of Turkey, the country’s military has enjoyed significant privileges and been an integral part of the national political system. Most Russian and foreign analysts agree that the army has always been the guarantor of the Kemalist course and protector ...
... Contemporary Dynamics and Prospects” held by International Strategic Research Organization . Workshop Questions , 35 Kb RIAC delegation included Director General Andrey Kortunov, RIAC members Pyotr Stegny and Fyodor Lukyanov, as well as RIAC experts on Turkey, Middle East and Islamic world. The Turkish side included government officials, leading university scholars, NGO representatives and independent experts. Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Naci Koru addressed the forum. The conference came to a decision ...
... ruling circles and in collective consciousness, which is inconsistent with the basic concept of Islam, according to which the “national” factor does not play a defining role. However, throughout the period of the existence of the Republic of Turkey, nationalism was the foundation of the ideology of the Turkish Republic. This duality of political consciousness generated, on the one hand, periodic returns to the Pan-Turkism ideology (the idea of unification of all Turkic peoples in a great ...
... instance a massacre in a village or a heavy attack) may be a legitimate reason for a deterioration of the situation with uncontrollable consequences. Take one recent example - a Turkish spy plane shot down on June 22, 2012 by Syrian air defense forces. Turkey announced that the pilots did not violate the airspace of Syria. It is possible that Syrian missile operators overreacted, since the day before they received a scolding for having missed a defector. Syrian colonel Hassan Merhi al-Hamade in an old ...
... the EU stability. The problems exposed over the last five years should have encouraged Brussels to review the whole EU further enlargement strategy. However, nothing of the sort happened. Today, five countries are officially cueing up for membership: Turkey, Montenegro, Macedonia, Iceland and Serbia. At present Croatia is actually completing the process of accession to the EU. Certain pledges were made to Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Theoretically, what is the borderline where the European ...
... Gulf, is already burning with sparkles and hisses. The Great Middle East needs its own Westphalian peace. Nearby, on the other coast of the Persian (Arabic) Gulf is Iran, a country of the victorious democratic Islamism (Shiism). A bit to the North is Turkey - a country with an Islamic (Sunnite) democracy and an island of stability on the edge of a rampant and simmering region Still farther is Afghanistan, smelling with gun powder and opium and loud with explosions. The only common feature on this ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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