Russians and Arabs: in Search of a New Modus Vivendi

... officials coined their new approach to the Middle East, that can be summarized the following way: First. Authoritarian states in the Middle East are in any case better than failed states that come to replace the former after public uprisings (which are often ... ....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 ...