The Soviet Roots of Putin's Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East

Chapter 9: Russia and the Middle East: Opportunities and Challenges

In the 1960s and early 1970s the Soviet Union established strong ties with Egypt, Iraq, Syria and South Yemen. Since the late 1970s, Egypt, a leader of the Arab ...

Putin's Revolution and War at a “Historical Crossroads”

At a perceived historical crossroads in both Russia's post-Soviet development and the global order, Putin seeks to dismantle the US-led ...

Russia Is Right on the Middle East - Foreign Policy

These Russian policies were founded on an analysis by the Russian foreign-policy and security establishment of Middle Eastern states that has ...

Russia: Foreign Policy and U.S. Relations - CRS Reports

October 2019; Becca Wasser, The Limits of Russian Strategy in the Middle East, RAND, November 2019; Alec Luhn,. “Putin's Game in the Middle East ...

How the Death of the Soviet Union Transformed the Middle East

Since coming to power, Putin worked slowly but consistently to return Russia to the Middle East. In line with Primakov's vision, he pursued ...

Russian Policy Across the Middle East - Chatham House

... relations with Middle Eastern countries a means to avoid international ... Putin's re-election in 2012 have on Russian policy in the Middle East?

Russian Policy toward the Middle East: The Yeltsin Legacy and the ...

Given its greatly weakened geopolitical position after the collapse of the Soviet. Union, Moscow has had to reorient its foreign policy.

Russia's Middle East resurgence: Here to stay? - GIS Reports

In the Middle East, Moscow is seeking to reclaim its Soviet-era influence to advance the global ambitions of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Russian Foreign Policy towards Syria after the Arab Spring

The aim of Russia was to return back on the international system as a great power “Putin's attempts to shore up Russian influence in the Middle East were ...

Ukraine: Conflict at the Crossroads of Europe and Russia

A year after the fighting began, many defense and foreign policy analysts cast the war as a major strategic blunder by Russian President Vladimir Putin. More on ...

Russian Relations With the Middle East After Putin's Invasion ... - ISPI

Another important change in the accents of Russian foreign policy towards the Middle East was Moscow's military-industrial cooperation with the ...

Foreign policy of Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia

Expansion of NATO and the EU into Eastern Europe much conflicts with Russian interests, which has pushed them to become more aggressive to attempt to influence ...

RIAC :: Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East

Russian policy in the Middle East region can probably be considered one of areas of most significant achievement for President Putin in ...

Russian Foreign Policy - International Relations

The initial period of Russian foreign policy in the early 1990s was to a large degree a continuation of Soviet foreign policy, with its focus on ...

Russia And American Power In The Middle East - Hoover Institution

For a while the Soviet government in Moscow had little opportunity to interfere in Middle Eastern affairs except in the form of its communist ...

Russia in the Middle East —

Instead of demonstrating. Russia's determination, the invasion of Iraq highlighted its irrelevance, humiliating. Putin and poisoning US-Russian relations.

Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and ...

During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a ...

Russian foreign policy and geopolitics in the Post-Soviet space and ...

Dmitry Ofitserov-Belskiy and Andrey Sushenstov discuss Russian Foreign Policy towards Eastern Europe and Ukraine together in one chapter. This ...

The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Russian foreign policy is peaceful, open, predictable, consistent, and pragmatic and is based on the respect for universally recognized ...

Understanding Putin Through a Middle Eastern Looking Glass

During these visits I discussed Russian policy toward the Middle East with a variety of think tank foreign policy and regional experts, journalists with similar ...