Russia's Relations With Saudi Arabia
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BACKGROUND: The apparent rapprochement between Russia and Saudi Arabia during Crown Prince Abdullah’s visit to Moscow is likely to have large implications for global energy markets, and especially for Caspian producers. There are significant forces which push Saudi Arabia and Russia into each other’s embrace. Oil, weapons and geopolitics drive their newly found common agenda. Moscow, on its part, is driven towards a partnership with Saudi Arabia for a combination of geopolitical and geo-economic reasons. It is looking to compensate itself for the loss of influence in the Gulf with the demise of Saddam Hussein, the old Soviet client.
By Dr. Subhash Kapila Contextual Reference: Author’s SAAG Paper No. 2154 dated 28.02.2007 “Russia’s President Putin’s Second Strategic Foray in the Middle East (February 2007) Introductory Observations Saudi Arabia’s tentative strategic shift away from the United States was significantly discernible when during Gulf War II against Iraq in 2003, Saudi Arabia denied the United States the military use of its bases for the Iraq military intervention.
SAUDI ARABIA: THE STRATEGIC SHIFT TOWARDS RUSSIA?
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) and National Security Council of Saudi Arabia Secretary General Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz (L) A simple, one-sentence Russian language news item published by Russia's Interfax on July 14 seemingly signals yet another tectonic shift in the Middle East's volatile mixture of oil, religion and weaponry. The item read, "An agreement about military-technical collaboration (VTS) between Russia and Saudi Arabia was signed Monday evening, reports an Interfaks [sic] correspondent; the agreement was signed in the presence of RF Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by Federal agency on VTS head Mikhail Dmitriev and National Security Council of Saudi Arabia Secretary General Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz" (Interfax, July 14).
Saudi-Russian Military Cooperation
The Emerging Saudi-Russian Partnership
Mark N. Katz, a professor of government and politics at George Mason University, has written extensively on Soviet and Russian foreign policy toward the Middle East for over a quarter century. His recent works on this subject include: "Putin, Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis," Middle East Policy , Winter 2006; "Russia and Qatar," Middle East Review of International Affairs , December 2007, and "Russia and Algeria: Partners or Competitors?" Middle East Policy , Winter 2007. D uring the Cold War, few governments exhibited more mutual antipathy than Moscow and Riyadh.
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Saudi-Russian Relations Since the Abdulla
