Russia and the West have almost never seen eye-to-eye on what defines terrorism
With new international Syria talks in Vienna planned for this coming weekend, the diplomatic standoff over who counts as a terrorist versus legitimate opposition in Syria will be in renewed focus. In the recent past, Russia has repeatedly stated that an internationally agreed ...
... for one simple reason: the Kremlin considers the Syrian operation not only as Russia’s protection against the threat of terrorism. The Syrian operation can and should mark the transition of Russian politics to a totally new level: from regional and reactive diplomacy ... ... the CIS countries were aimed only at the passive protection of its interests against the aggressive policy of the collective West. The global policy as such was nonexistent: it was reduced to the rejection of American hegemony and to appeals to build ...