... legitimacy.
This attitude toward Western-dominated international institutions contrasts with the view of non-Western ones. This year, Russia’s presidency of the recently enlarged BRICS group is being marked by hyperactivity in preparations for hosting. Russia is also most supportive of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which its close ally Belarus is about to join. Together with countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, it's working closely to build new international regimes in a number of areas: finance and trade, standards and technology, information and health care. These are expressly being designed to be free from Western domination ...
... Moscow’s interaction with Islamic capitals. It is indicative that Kazan will also host the first BRICS summit in a renewed composition, where 4 out of 5 new members are Muslim nations.
The Chechen Republic is the region through which the networking between Russia and Middle Eastern states is being built. The personality of its head Ramzan Kadyrov, who accompanied Vladimir Putin in his trip to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, undoubtedly plays an important role here. The Chechen leader stayed in Saudi Arabia for at least ...
The Russia-Middle East policy has demonstrated considerable resilience, as has the regional system of international relations
Introduction
When Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation” in Ukraine a year ago, many experts and journalists concluded ...
... will as well as the popular support it enjoys at home look much stronger than what the current US administration can muster.
With regard to Palestine, the US took conflict settlement into its own hands, sidelining the other three members of the defunct Middle East Quartet: Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations. As a result, the two-state solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict was de facto put on ice. In its place, Washington focused on economic handouts to the Palestinian Arabs who in return were expected to ...
... sufficient to provide the necessary assistance to so many protectorates. In other words, in order to maintain its presence, American policy will have to demonstrate a certain degree of adaptability to changing global and regional circumstances.
For Russia, which has no direct connection to the Middle East crisis, it represents a good experience to learn from. First of all, it demonstrates how short-sighted it can be to rely on a limited number of allies, as well as to take on significant obligations. Just as the United States must adapt to ...
... crisis suggests that the fabric of the order that emerged after the Cold War on the ruins of the bipolar system is tearing at the seams more and more frequently. It is becoming more and more difficult to mend such developments.
The developments in the Middle East have pushed the fighting in Ukraine to the background of the media agenda. Meanwhile, the situation there hardly speaks in favour of the strength of the post-bipolar status quo. A sign of such strength could be Russia’s return to the status of a defeated power and the final consolidation of the results of the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, facts on the ground tell a different story. The widely advertised and expensively purchased offensive of the Ukrainian ...
The goal of the round table was to discuss the dynamics of quadrilateral cooperation in the context of regional trends in the Middle East. The meeting was attended by leading experts from Russia, Iran, Turkey and Syria
On October 18, 2023, a closed round table “Cooperation between Russia, Iran, Turkey and Syria in the Context of Regional Dynamics” was held. Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in cooperation with Institute ...
On September 27–30, 2023, the 3rd International Expert Forum “Russia — Middle East” is being held in St. Petersburg
On September 27–30, 2023, the 3rd International Expert Forum “Russia — Middle East” is being held in St. Petersburg. The event is organized by the Evgeniy Primakov Center for International Cooperation ...
... witnesses the decline of the US role, the increase of China's activity, as well as the lack of stable economic development and social justice, and shortage of resources. Iran, Turkey and Israel are regional leaders, yet there is still no hegemon in the Middle East. China and Russia should develop multilateral and coordinated partnership in such areas as maintaining security and peace in the Middle East, expanding alternative regional formats of cooperation in economy, finance, trade, high technology and education, developing ...
... at the RIAC Ivan Bocharov made a presentation of the RIAC activities to students of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE University. The meeting was held at the framework of the Research Seminar on the Development of the Middle East and North Africa.
The meeting was also attended by Senior Lecturer Grigoriy Lukyanov and Visiting Lecturer Murad Sadygzade.
