Russia's Middle East Policy
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Russia aims to regain Middle East influence - Telegraph
Eventually, about 3,000 White Russians lived in the city, holding an annual Russian Ball from the Thirties onwards. The Soviets offered scholarships to Lebanese communists. Medvedev's approach There is something new today. In order to strengthen Russia's dwindling power in the world and promote Russian language and culture, president Medvedev founded a federal agency, Rossotrudnichestvo (Russian Collaboration), two years ago. The new agency's funding has increased at least by 50pc since last year – this year, the state invested £350m in various humanitarian programmes and salaries for employees working in 72 Russian cultural centres around the world.
Challenging US and Russian Interests
By Tai Adelaja Russia Profile 07/01/2010 Moscow’s Backpedalling on its Deal with Iran Could Have Dire Consequences for Russia’s Interests in the Middle East For a nation just barely wriggling out of the worst economic recession in 15 years, a $1 billion arms sales contract may be a tidbit too tempting to ignore.
Russia Profile - Expensive Diplomacy
Russia in Mideast: more of the same
From Mark N. Katz At the recent Moscow summit, the U.S. and Russian governments made progress on strategic arms control and on Afghanistan. Instead of heralding broader Russian-American cooperation, however, the results of the Moscow summit—and subsequent G-8 summit in Italy—suggest that Russian-American cooperation is likely to remain limited, especially regarding the Middle East. Presidents Obama and Medvedev reportedly discussed Iran at length, but no agreement on how the United States and Russia would work together in preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons was announced. The G-8 summit leaders (which include the president of Russia) have given Iran until September to make progress on the nuclear issue, but this call is largely symbolic.
Under New Leadership / Russia's New Regional Priorities / The Impact of Domestic Politics / Russia's Military and Economic Weakness / Russia and Iran / Pipeline Politics / Kosovo and Chechnya / Russia and Iraq / Russia and Turkey / Russia and Israel / Putin's Inheritance Under New Leadership Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main successor state, Russia, emerged in a greatly weakened geopolitical position. Complicating Russia's problems was a politically weak and often physically sick President Boris Yeltsin.
Russian Policy toward the Middle East under Yeltsin and Putin,"
CRIA » The Russian Invasion of Georgia its Impact on Israel and
Abstract The heavy-handed policy demonstrated by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in his invasion of Georgia in August 2008 should have come as no surprise to anyone following Putin's foreign policy in the Middle East in the 2005-2008 period, which has clearly displayed the aggressiveness and anti-Americanism so evident in the invasion of Georgia. Putin's cultivation of the anti-American terrorist organizations Hamas and Hizbollah, and his military and diplomatic support for anti-American "Rogue States" like Syria and Iran, indeed set the stage for the invasion of Georgia as Putin sought to spread Russian influence throughout the South Caucasus as well as the Middle East.