... for Research and Policy Studies (Qatar) show that 66% of Egyptians assess the political situation in the Arab Republic positively and only 23% negatively.
Over the past ten years, there have been two reorientations of Egyptian foreign policy. When the Muslim Brotherhood came to power after the Arab Spring, the new Egyptian leadership received support from Turkey and Qatar. However, in 2013, the relationship between them was ruined. Following the overthrow of Mohammad Morsi, Turkey offered refuge and protection to the Muslim Brotherhood leadership ...
... people, having supported the Ba'ath Party, made the only “right” choice in this situation.
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In March 2011, the Arab Spring sparked armed conflict in Syria, which gradually escalated into civil war. According to the UN, by fall 2015 the war ... ... AST Publishers. 2014, pp. 161-163 [in Russian]
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. Author’s note: In 2003 Russia’s Supreme Court recognized the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
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. A. Vasiliev. Puritans of Islam? Wahhabism and the First Saudi State in Arabia ...
... Taksim Square, showing if not Morsi, than the secular opposition for sure, that the Islamists in Turkey were not omnipotent, did not go unnoticed in Egypt either. Generally speaking, in view of the hopes pinned on the Turkish model in the course of the Arab spring, the events in Egypt were a meaningful sign for the countries with state-political systems based on stabilizing, balancing role of the military.
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Georgy Mirsky:
Dialogue with Muslim Brotherhood Should Be
Continued
It’s difficult to make a forecast, but going back to what we talked about at the beginning of our conversation – the postmodern nature of the coup – let us not forget that five years after the ...
