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The Arab World: Between Violence and Consensus

... II are often cited as justifications of Stalin’s repressions. Middle Eastern societies have never seen violence as an essential ... ... Iran–Iraq War took two or three times the number of lives that the Syrian Civil War has. The growing significance of violence as a ... ... Gaddafi. The murder of 1270 prisoners at the Abu Salim prison in Libya in 1996 was just one episode. Nobody knows exactly how many ... ... the Houthi insurgency in Yemen in 2004–2010 (i.e. before the Arab Spring) resulted in several tens of thousands of human casualties....

24.01.2018

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Russians and Arabs: in Search of a New Modus Vivendi

... brought to life an entirely new level of interaction with the Arab Middle East. The Soviet Union from the very beginning was a strong ... ... engaged in business, cultural exchanges, education and tourism. The Arab Spring of 2011 – 2012 changed many fundamentals in the ... ... graphic manifestation of this strategy in the Western involvement in Libya in 2011, which was regarded as a clear and self-serving deviation ... ... approach was, of course, the Moscow engagement into the civil war in Syria. In this bloody and protracted conflict, Moscow demonstrated ...

08.04.2016

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Poll conducted

In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)