The beginning of summer 2025 was not the calmest for Eurasia and Russian policy in this vast region
The beginning of summer 2025 was not the calmest for Eurasia and Russian policy in this vast ... ... Misunderstandings in relations between Russia and Azerbaijan are, of course, completely incomparable in scale with the crisis in the Middle East. However, they also indicate that the southern part of the Eurasian space is searching for its place in international ...
The current balance in the Middle East is fragile and unstable
The current balance in the Middle East is fragile and unstable. It can be upset by the aggravation ... ... through every available means – including military force. While few would question America’s overwhelming military might, some Russian and foreign analysts have recently suggested that the US is drifting toward isolationism, retreating from long-standing ...
Strategically, Russia has little to gain and a lot to lose in case the crisis goes deeper
In the early morning of June 24 US President Donald ... ... centrifuges remaining mostly untouched. In any case, Iran struck back, firing missiles on June 23 at the largest US airbase in the Middle East, Al Udeid in Qatar. Moreover, already after public acceptance of the truce, both Iran and Israel continued to exchange ...
Report No. 99 / 2025
Report No. 99 / 2025
The following report focuses on the Middle Eastern policies of extra-regional actors and their transformation in changing conditions. It concentrates on studying the strategies pursued by Russia, the U.S., the EU, China and India in the Middle East. The report also examines how Middle Eastern countries perceive extra-regional actors as they aspire to build pragmatic and balanced relationships with external partners.
Extra-Regional Actors ...
... (IOS) of the RAS, RIAC Member; Nikolay Sukhov, Senior Research Fellow of the IOS RAS. Svetlana Gavrilova, RIAC Director of Programs, moderated the session.
During the first session, the presentation of the RIAC report, “Extra-Regional actors in the Middle East”, was held. The experts discussed regional strategies of Russia, USA, EU, China and India. Speakers in this session were the report authors: Alexander Aksenenok, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-President; Alexander Lomanov, Acting Deputy Director for Scientific Work ...
... politics. All of them are now performing, in one way or another, tasks to accomplish even the most ill-contrived goals of the USA. None of them receive anything for this that could contribute to the survival of their statehood and population, either at ... ... comparable strength. Since we are far from thinking that a threat to Europe could come from North African countries, China, or the Middle East, the only such enemy is Russia. However, it is linked to the United States by a relationship of strategic deterrence, based on the direct and immediate ...
Here’s how the new year will test Russia’s resilience and the global order
Predicting the future has become increasingly difficult. The pace of global change ... ... and EU member states, torn between reacting to immediate challenges and addressing long-term concerns, risk further disarray.
Middle East: Rising Tensions and Experimentation
In Syria, radical Islamist factions are attempting to project an image of
“normality”
...
Will Russia continue its “business as usual” aimed at maintaining the existing status-quo or will it be forced to review and to ... ... the 47-th US Commander-in-Chief, it might still be too early to properly assess the likely shifts in the US approaches to the Middle East region. However, some changes are easy to predict.
Regional Trends in the Middle East: Political and Economic Dynamics....
... October 2023, many observers jumped to a grim conclusion that, from then onward, the Middle East was hurtling at an ever-increasing speed toward another major regional conflict... ... parallels between Palestinian radicals and the Muslim Brotherhood movement (banned in Russia) at home, which has been driven deep underground, but was, alongside Israel,... ... But repeating the experience of the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s, with hundreds of thousands killed and millions wounded, is now a no-go: Middle Eastern societies have changed...
Soviet influence in the Middle East was ultimately useless, and now it seems Washington is heading down the same path
The confrontation between Iran ... ... this still does not mean that Beijing is willing or able to impose its will.
This is all the more the case when it comes to Russia’s policy. It is not a question of making a country in the Middle East a mere executor of its intentions. In this respect,...
