... dividend from tourism for the countries of the region was the fact that in 2023 Thailand (along with the UAE and the Indonesian island of Bali)
claimed
the position of one of the most popular destinations for Russians to buy real estate, edging out Turkey that was the leader in 2022. A factor whose potential is yet to be traced in the coming years is that Russians are gradually getting keener on studying at leading universities of the region, above all in Singapore, but also in Malaysia.
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... covered with a network of railways ? There have been and are here the conditions of a mobility of military and economic power of a far-reaching and yet limited character. [...] Outside the pivot area, in a great inner crescent, are Germany, Austria, Turkey, India, and China, and in an outer crescent, Britain, South Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, and Japan. [...] The oversetting of the balance of power in favour of the pivot state, resulting in its expansion over the marginal lands ...
... has no claims to Armenia’s territories, Armenia has renounced its claims on Azerbaijan’s territories (although they have yet to be eliminated from the Armenian Constitution), it makes no sense for Iran to attack Azerbaijan as an ally of Russia and Turkey, and Georgia will never dare to go to war with Russia. Yes, the peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia has not yet been signed, and the Armenian-Azerbaijani and Armenian-Turkish borders have not been opened yet, but these bilateral issues ...
... Technology will not remain exclusive in the hands of a few people. For example, important technology today is in the military via drones. Who is it that mainly dominates the drone market? It's not the United States. It’s not Israel or China. It's Turkey and Iran. So, you are seeing these outlying countries coming and occupying the center stage of disruptive technology. They improvise. Knowledge has become democratized. It is no longer limited to the small the mighty. It's democratized. Today, ...
... be directly referred to as the
Islamic focus
in Russia’s foreign policy.
The development of multifaceted cooperation with the Islamic nations has an economic dimension, too, specifically given a dramatic surge in trade turnover. Cooperation with Turkey and Iran has reached an unprecedentedly high level. The same applies to the ties with Algeria, Egypt, Qatar, the UAE, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and other Muslim states. Moscow is also intensifying its contacts with other countries that previously ...
... Peninsula. In 2017, the largest terrorist attack in Egypt's recent history took place at a mosque in Bir al-Abed. Over the past decade, terrorism has remained as one of the key security challenges for the ARE.
Tense Foreign Policy
Egypt’s relations with Turkey and Qatar, which had supported Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood*, deteriorated sharply. Contradictions with Turkey were extremely deepening. In 2013, amid Ankara's criticism of Morsi's arrest as well as the policies of the new Egyptian ...
... pressure on businesses from friendly countries will become increasingly noticeable. In 2023, these measures were already very active. Almost all rounds of US blocking sanctions against Russia included sanctions against individuals and third countries (Turkey, UAE, China, Singapore, Kyrgyzstan, Cyprus, etc.), which the US authorities considered involved in circumventing export controls and other sanctions regimes. A mechanism for such secondary sanctions was introduced in the EU last year, although ...
... clearly dissatisfied with the existing world order, it seeks to change it and move it in a direction where Russian security and development interests would be ensured better.
At the regional level, striking examples of revisionist behaviour are modern Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Republic of South Africa, Algeria, small countries in post-French Africa or Azerbaijan in the former USSR, North Korea, and Brazil. All these countries strive to correct specific and important elements of the international ...
... the West and a large part of the Israeli society to provide more support to Ukraine and to distance itself from Moscow. [
6
] This could result in Russian-Israeli relations becoming more bumpy and less predictable in future.
Ilya Vedeneyev:
Syria–Turkey Relations: A Road to Normalization
Nonetheless, any deterioration of this relationship has its limitations, as Russia and Israel need each other—both in the MENA region and globally. The Russian-speaking diaspora in Israel is substantial, and ...
... allegiance to the supreme leader of Iran on several occasions, Hamas’s relations with Tehran are based on their interests in the region. Thus, it was fully understandable that Hamas and Tehran relations reached their lowest level after Hamas sided with Turkey against Bashar Assad in Syria (the close ally of Tehran in the region). Israel and the United States, unlike any military operations launched by Hezbollah, could find the Iranian claims that Iran is not responsible for the Hamas operation on 7 ...
