Another Russia – Middle East Diplomacy Success

Alexandr Svaranc On May 10, an earlier announced meeting of the foreign ministers of the Astana format participants – Russia, Iran, Turkey and Syria – took place in Moscow. It should be noted that this summit of representatives of the Quartet took the baton from the heads of defense departments. The latter shows that Russia,…

Turkish Elections and Anxiety in Russia

Oleg Barabanov The presidential elections in Turkey are scheduled for mid-May. For all their undoubted importance for Turkish society, one cannot fail to note the fact that these elections are now attracting close and sometimes highly emotional attention in Russia as well. In the most apocalyptic forecasts, one can read that if Erdogan loses, then Russia’s last window of opportunity will close,…

Elections in Türkiye: Challenges Facing Erdogan

Yoselina Guevara López On May 14, Türkiye will hold presidential and parliamentary elections in which citizens will elect the new president of the country and the 600 deputies of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The head of state will be elected in the first round only if he/she reaches 50%+1 of the votes; otherwise, the…

Turkiye Supports Syria Normalization Without ‘Preconditions’

The Cradle Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks to the media, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. Cavusoglu has called on NATO to support Turkey’s security concerns, accusing allies of backing Baltic countries’ security concerns but dismissing threats to Turkey from Syrian Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) Syria maintains that it will not move…

Russia is Finding New Solutions to the Syrian Crisis

Alexandr Svaranc The destabilization of the military-political situation and the provoked civil war in Syria, which has been going on since March 2011, have become another consequence of the US regional policy of reformatting the Middle East region and establishing its own monopoly. The strategy of “controlled chaos” with the use of radical forces and…

The Emerging Multipolar World Order is Good for International Peace

Azhar Azam What has forced Europe to review its perspective on Beijing is Chinese President Xi Jinping’s role as a “global statesman” after facilitating the successful peace talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Beijing is becoming the center of global diplomacy. In the last couple of months, it has hosted a number of international leaders…

Russia, Iran, China Aim to Reboot Persian Gulf Security

Hussein Askary Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran seek to establish collective security in the Persian Gulf, run by littoral states and not western militaries. This will fundamentally shift the region out of the Atlanticist paradigm. The recent normalization of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, brokered by China, is just the tip of the iceberg in terms…

The Leaked Plan to Attack Russians in Syria Revealed

Steven Sahiounie The war in Ukraine was planned to extend to Syria.  Leaked secret documents revealed the Ukrainian military were planning to attack Russian troops stationed in Syria in an effort to distract Russia and cause losses and casualties far from the battlefield in eastern Europe. Jack Teixeira, a young member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard,…

The US Balks at Thriving UAE-Russia Relations

Stasa Salacanin The leak of classified documents suggesting Emirati-Russian intel against the US has caused uncertainty about the future of US-UAE relations amid significant shifts in the geopolitics of the Persian Gulf. The leak of highly classified Pentagon documents, including reports of the UAE’s alleged intelligence collusion with Russia against the US and UK, has…

NATO Expansion versus OPEC+ Oil Shock

Salman Rafi Sheikh Finland’s inclusion in, and the consequent expansion of, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), has supposedly brought much joy to the Western world supposedly fighting Russia for the protection of democracy and human rights. The real purpose of this fight, as we already know, is to preserve the West – mainly, the…

Russia’s New Foreign Policy: Confronting the US ‘Enemy’ in a New World Order

Mohamad Hasan Sweidan Moscow’s recently released Concept of Foreign Policy reveals a significant shift towards confronting the US, prioritizing alliances with non-western countries, and positioning Russia as a pillar of the emerging multipolar world. The US is described as the “main inspirer, organizer, and executor” of aggressive anti-Russian policy in the world, and the main…

History Has its Course and Timing

Bouthaina Shaaban Western sanctions imposed on Iran, Russia, Syria, and in fact any country that refuses to be driven by Western will, have motivated many countries in the world to search seriously for ways and means to liberate their destinies from Western hegemony. In trying to analyze and interpret small or big events and understand…