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On October 28, 2015, Moscow was the venue for a public debate on Russia-Egypt relations and Middle East developments with participation of former Egyptian Foreign Minister (1991–2001) and Secretary-General of the Arab League (2001–2011) Amr Moussa. Organized by RIAC with support of Egypt’s Embassy to Russia,...
Why Cairo is Turning to Moscow Russia is working hard to bolster its diplomatic, economic and military clout in the Arab world along several tracks, among them through Egypt, a regional leader that has been declared by President Vladimir Putin as "a very promising country". For its part, Cairo is doing its best to expand cooperation with Moscow along political, military-technical, energy, trade, investment ...
The relationship seems to have returned to Mubarak’s times The U.S.-Egypt strategic dialogue was reset on August 2 in Cairo which signifies restoration of a full-scale partnership of the two countries at the level of the Hosni Mubarak rule. The bilateral relationship was shattered in July 2013 when the Egypt's top brass ...
... have to maintain regional order on their own. If there is a military conflict with Iran, the Americans will hardly leave the KSA to fight it alone, but Riyadh feels less than reassured. The Saudi elite still seems impressed by the 2011 overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who was unceremonially dumped by Washington despite their decades-long partnership. And the situation in Egypt went on to deteriorate. First the KSA-hostile Muslim Brotherhood came to power, and then, soon after his election,...
The official visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Russia — his first overseas trip outside the Arab world since his election — and the outcome of his talks with President Vladimir Putin have clearly demonstrated the close links among the seemingly ...
Russia is about to receive another serious proposal from Egypt. Following the initiative to renew military-technical cooperation – negotiations on the matter began in the autumn of 2013 – plans are now afoot to build Egypt’s first nuclear power plant. Officially, a tender is to be announced,...
I. Egypt deserves Russian attention because of its long-lasting political relevance During the last three years the Egyptian state has lived through a revolution and a military coup, and has shifted from military dictatorship to Islamic democracy and then ...
The referendum on the amendments to Egypt’s 2012 Constitution took place on 14-15 January 2014. The key amendments to the Constitution mostly concern provisions that take the country back to a unicameral parliament, prohibit religious parties from being elected to parliament, lift ...
... disaster: instead of moving over from authoritarianism to democracy, the region swung towards new forms of authoritarianism, which were only slightly covered with a fig leaf of the expression of people’s will. A month and a half before the events in Egypt, these tendencies were only beginning to take shape in Marrakech. But the unconventionality of the algorithm of the region’s democratic reformatting became more or less obvious. The Secretary General of the National Dialogue Party of Lebanon,...
On November 29, 2013RIAC President Igor Ivanov held a meeting with the Ambassador of Egypt to the Russian Federation Mohamed Elbadri. During the meeting, the parties discussed the relevant issues of the Russian-Egyptian relations, the situation in the Middle East as well as international security in general. The Egyptian Ambassador received ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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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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