Russians and Arabs: in Search of a New Modus Vivendi

... against each other. Unlike the cosmopolitan Ottoman Empire, the Arab world in itself never tried to extend its domination to Eastern ... ... brought to life an entirely new level of interaction with the Arab Middle East. The Soviet Union from the very beginning was a strong ... ... 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 ...