Russians and Arabs: in Search of a New Modus Vivendi

... Petersburg, other places of the Russian Empire. One could also mention that unlike most of other major European powers, Russia for centuries was a state with significant indigenous Moslem population; this population helped to build additional bridges to the Arab world. The Soviet period of the Russian history brought to life an entirely new level of interaction with the Arab Middle East. The Soviet Union from the very beginning was a strong champion and supporter of the Arab national liberation. It would not be an over exaggeration to say that after the Second World war many Arab nations relied on the Soviet Union as their ...