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On February 26, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, held consultations with the authorities of Harmoon Centre for Contemporary Studies in Doha (Qatar). Harmoon is an independent think-tank conducting research on Arab region. The parties discussed possible tracks of cooperation between RIAC and Harmoon including holding an international expert conference on prospects of Syrian crisis settlement ...
Russia-Qatar bilateral relations have always been far from perfect. Ever since the Chechen wars, Russian politicians and policy pundits have perceived the gulf monarchy as an adversary. Economic ties between the two nations have remained stagnant with an almost ...
... that the United States now is a major player in the region. Russia in the region An important trend in 2016 is that Russia has managed to expand significantly the circle of its partners in the Middle East. We can note the high level of cooperation of Russia with Egypt, Israel, new partners in the Gulf, such as Bahrain, some progress in relations with Qatar, cooperation with Saudi Arabia in the energy sector, particularly in oil production, and, of course, the normalization of relations with Turkey, including the beginning of cooperation between Moscow and Ankara on the Syrian crisis, which is completely ...
... for the civilian population. This offensive has also resulted in a surge of internally displaced people and a huge increase in the refugee crisis. According to some sources at least 70,000 have been forced on the move from Aleppo [18] . The current Russian offensive and the real possibility of the rebels not being able to hold out in the long term puts some real pressure on Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. These three states mainly have been active from the start of the conflict and have donated an increasing volume of political and economic capital towards the rebels. Should the GCC states not up the ante in terms of their support for ...
On October 27-28, 2015, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov was in Doha, Qatar, to represent Russia at the 4th Doha International Strategic Policies Forum (DISP 2015) held annually by the Strategic Studies Center of Qatar Armed Forces. The event was focused on the balance of regional and global factors that determine the Middle Eastern scene ...
... He was obviously under great external pressure to do so. Speaking at the FIFA Congress in Zurich, Blatter expressly stated that the current discontent with the organization was to do with the 2010 decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar , respectively. It is true that if Russia, isolated by the United States and its allies as a result of the events in Crimea and Ukraine, were to successfully host the tournament – a much more prestigious event than the Winter Olympics and one ...
... for Research & Policy Studies on opportunities for cooperation of their think tanks. During his stay in Doha, Dr. Kortunov also visited Qatari MFA to meet Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah and other officials and discuss prospects for Russian-Qatari relations, Syria settlement and other Middle East issues, and also to brief them on RIAC’s coverage of the Middle East problems and plans for cooperation with Arab think tanks.
An American and two Russians have landed safely in Kazakhstan after 5 ½ months in space… and to think there is no cooperation toward a more peaceful world between the United States and Russia. Meanwhile, private citizens of Qatar, and other friends of the United States, have been financing Hamas and ISIS. Now, as Washington prepares to launch a new campaign to destroy global terror networks an American website with ties to the J Street lobby claims that the RUNET (Russian ...
... of late. Debka, a website with close ties to the Israeli defense and intelligence communities, posits that both Bandar and Kochavi made "miscalculations". Bandar had sealed his fate last year during his secret visit outside Moscow with Russian president Vladimir Putin. He bragged that Riyadh controlled Chechen extremists in Russia, and that he would unleash them on the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics unless Putin ended his support for the Assad regime in Syria. Haaretz and Al Monitor reported ...
... writer of the Monitor story sourced David Goldwyn, a former special envoy for international energy affairs under former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, Washington ally Norway has just overtaken Russia as Europe top LNG provider, loosening Russia’s “tight grip” over the market. Qatar remains the world’s largest liquid natural gas exporter. Rasgas, founded as a joint venture with Exxon-Mobil in 2007, has a long term agreement to provide French energy giant Electricite de France (EDF) with deliveries of LNG via ship for ...
| 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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