Russians and Arabs: in Search of a New Modus Vivendi

... easily ‘sell out’ its longtime allies and friends in the region (e.g. Mubarak in Egypt); even a UN Security Council resolution can be violated or interpreted in a very liberal way. Third. If Russia remains an idle bystander watching the Arab Spring from the sideline, the chaos, instability and terrorism generated in the Arab world will ultimately spill over Russia’s borders, not to mention the evident demise of the Russian influence in the region. The practical application of this new approach was, of course, the Moscow engagement into the civil war in Syria. In this bloody and protracted conflict,...