... disappeared as Washington becomes a ‘back seat driver
The Istanbul agreements – a tentative peace plan agreed between Russia and Ukraine in the spring of 2022 – are being discussed again. However, as they were written at the time they are no longer relevant ... ... which are not unlimited, in different directions.
Yes, they are huge, but, I repeat, they are no longer unlimited. Today, the Middle East is strategically much more important than Ukraine.
You may notice that I am not even talking about the issue of China,...
On Middle Eastern states’ pragmatic approach and neutrality
Today’s world, with its current architecture of international relations,... ... the current changes and strive to use diplomacy, mediation, and pragmatism to mitigate crises, including in the conflict in Ukraine.
Mediators
Aleksandr Aksenenok:
U.S. Policy Case for Middle East under New Conditions
On September 21–22, Russia and ...
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As for the alleged cases of grain stealing, we categorically reject such baseless accusations. It was clearly stated on June 7 by Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the... ... Navy has been organizing daily humanitarian corridors from the territorial waters of Ukraine to the Bosporus Strait. The detailed coordinates have been made public.
We are... ... the importance of our wheat for the nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the
Middle East
. In the current agricultural year, our exports will amount to 37 million...
... sanctions can cause grave problems for individual companies and projects. The risk of new sanctions stems from a series of political factors: the Ukrainian crisis and conflict in Donbass, the U.S. elections and the alleged meddling, the developments in the Middle East, etc.
— Regarding Ukraine, the crisis has noticeably stabilized. However, we should not expect any significant breakthroughs in terms of compliance with the Minsk Agreements in the coming year. The stabilization of the situation in Donbass significantly decreases the risk ...
... Moscow is reaching out to Brazil (a fellow BRICS member), Argentina and Mexico.
If the Middle East record is any guide, Russia’s newly energized foreign policy is not so... ... Federation has learned from this. When it travels abroad, it goes for security buffers as in Ukraine, status as in Syria and mostly money elsewhere. There is no grand design, but... ... technologies to influence other countries’ domestic politics, for instance, has provoked accusations from such important partners as Germany and France but failed to advance Russia’s...
... of a new Caucasus peace and development community?
Can Turkey assist the Europeans, Ukraine and Russia to find a way to cooperate over
pipelines
and energy disputes? Or... ... Taliban, U.S. officials
have accused
Russia of providing arms to the Taliban, an accusation that has been officially denied by Moscow.
Will it be possible to achieve a... ... major and regional powers of the spread of terrorist activities throughout the ‘wider Middle East’, with periodic attacks in countries throughout much of the world? How...
... over Trump policies and his possibility to address key international agenda issues such as protracted conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. In an interview with RIAC Director General Dr. Andrey Kortunov, Dr. Jiri Valenta, CFR member, reflects on what made the ... ...
Jiri Valenta:
Rather than fight Russia and Assad, Trump should, and likely will, recognize that his most immediate task in the Middle East is to seek great power collaboration in ending the “geopolitical Chernobyl” that is the Syrian civil war ...