... military operation in Syria by mining valuable minerals on exclusive terms.
Russia’s Prospective Role in Restoring Economic Ties
Moscow is prepared to act as an intermediary in implementing projects throughout Syria by using summit-level dialogue with Turkey, connections in Kurdish business circles, and the presence of the Military Police of Russia in Syria’s northern regions and other parts of the country. It should be remembered that
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
proposed that Turkey, Russia and the United ...
The event was timed to the 75th Anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On August 6, 2020, an international expert discussion on the role of nuclear weapons in the modern world was held with the assistance of the Turkish television company TRT World Television. The event was timed to the 75th Anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute...
... develop cooperation at the level of intelligence services, and outlined business projects. Now, these projects are at risk of sanctions. For the UAE, Damascus is important for several reasons, the most important of which is the regional confrontation with Turkey. An arc of instability across the Mediterranean, in which Turkey and the UAE stand on opposite sides of the barricade, is helping Damascus gain the attention of the Gulf monarchies and regain at least limited regional recognition. The latest escalation ...
... Center Executive Board; Vice-President of the Russian International Affairs Council; and Lt-General (Ret), Russia
General (Ret) Vincenzo Camporini
Vice President, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy
Hikmet Cetin
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
James F. Collins
Ambassador (Ret), United States
Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola
Former Chief of Defence; former Chairman of NATO's Military Committee; former Minister of Defence, Italy
Espen Barth Eide
Member of Parliament; former Minister of Foreign ...
... delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria for another year, until July 10, 2021. However, the UN aid will now go through just one Turkish border crossing — Bab al-Hawa. The resolution did not approve the Bab al-Salam crossing on Syria’s border with Turkey, as well as Al-Yarubiyah and Al-Ramtha on the country's borders with Iraq and Jordan, respectively.
Ruslan Mamedov:
Russia in Syria: A “Path Dependence Hybrid Warfare”
Since December 2019, Western countries have been blaming Russia and China ...
The seminar was divided into two sessions: "Political instability in Lebanon and Iraq: View from Russia and Israel" and "Libya: between Turkey, Egypt and others?"
On July 28, 2020, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with the Center for Political Research, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, with the support of the Embassy of Israel in Russia held a closed ...
... argued that “Russian soft power efforts in the Middle East are bearing fruit, as many young Arabs now view Moscow as an ally and the US as unreliable [
1
].” But the “
SOFT POWER 30
” Index, for 2019, places Russia 30
th
among 30 states, below Turkey's 29th score. Admittedly, these are quite “Russophobic” times in the West, except for occasional positive gestures by some Western capitals and the explicit support for many Russian policies by Cyprus and Greece. Moscow, then, must struggle ...
On July 22, 2020, the Emirates Policy Center hosted a webinar "The Fight for Libya", attended by experts and former diplomats from the United States, Great Britain, Turkey, and Russia, as well as by about 80 participants from the Middle East region.
On July 22, 2020, the Emirates Policy Center hosted a webinar "
The Fight for Libya
", attended by experts and former diplomats from the United States, Great ...
... military means, predominantly the use of Russian air forces from the Khmeimim base, Moscow also used military diplomacy and revealed regional ties.
One of the most successful elements of this approach was the Astana process under the auspices of Russia, Turkey and Iran. Nevertheless, Russia strengthened its coordination activity with various forces, including the establishment of constant contacts with Israel and the United States. On the eve of the beginning of the Russian operation in Syria on September ...
... unnecessarily the freedom of foreign policy manoeuvre. They talk rather about the need for “one big idea” that can “anchor” the entire foreign policy strategy. Russia supposedly lacks such an idea, while each of the US, the European Union, China, Turkey and Iran do have one. And if the United States’ soft power policy seems to say: “do as we do — and become us," then the EU's logic is "do as we do — and be with us." Russia’s several years of activity in the Middle East ...
