It is time for Moscow to decide on an algorithm for providing economic aid to Damascus
The ninth year of internal armed conflict has brought new challenges to Syria. According to
data from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
published on September 23, 2020, the damage done to the Syrian economy by the end of 2019 exceeded USD 442 bn. Still, under sanctions and with no international consensus on how to finance recovery, the country has not only failed to overcome the acute economic crisis but has also been hit by the negative consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, compounded by an unstable situation ...
... create difficulties, but also form prerequisites for mobilizing Syria’s internal resources and expanding Russia’s economic ... ... granted to the administration so that it could prepare secondary sanctions against foreign citizens for cooperating with Damascus ... ... experts thought that the country’s marginalization in the global economy would make it less vulnerable to the pandemic. The authorities ... ... was rumoured to have been placed under house arrest for his refusal to donate the bulk of his 5-billion-dollar fortune to advance ...
Russia should not necessarily wait for the Europeans to join its rebuilding efforts
As the United States eyes
new sanctions
on Syria, Russia increasingly finds it needs to work out solutions that would nonetheless push forward the post-conflict reconstruction ... ... predictable player. While ultimately under Assad Jr. Syria embarked on the capitalist path, the progress toward the reformed economy was uneven. Many things were also backsliding under the influence from outside, of which the US invasion of Iraq became ...
... greater cooperation between Russia and Western powers is possible in Syria and that the Russian people, like its counterparts, is wondering ... ... anti-terrorist coalition doesn’t exist. Western economic sanctions have been counter-productive since they failed to change ... ... (ISIS). The popular perception however, in Europe as well as in the USA, looked more positive. Does it mean there’s room for ... ...
The sanctions did have a serious negative impact on the Russian economy. However, they failed to change the Russian position in ...
