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Interview with Aleksei Sarabyev The Syrian presidential elections were held on June 3, 2014, with Bashar al-Assad emerging victorious. Aleksei Sarabyev , head of the Information and Publishing Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, talks to RIAC about how this will affect the internal political situation ...
Assad will remain. However, the devil, as always, is in the details The Syrian crisis continues to occupy a central place in world politics, even as the events in Ukraine have become the primary focus. The presidential elections in Syria will essentially change nothing: their easily predictable results will confirm the legitimacy of the rule of Bashar al-Assad for those who recognize it, and serve as a bone of contention for those who consider his rule illegitimate. There is nothing contradictory in the fact that, as Russian officials have stated, while Moscow does not personally support Bashar ...
... discussions. But these measures do not include mediating and checking the ongoing efforts of feuding regional powers Qatar and Saudi Arabia, whose big money and disruptive tactics have joined with western interests to advance a parallel government and army in Syria. Earlier this year, U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who was part of the negotiations along with Kerry and Lavrov ostensibly representing what Kerry has referred to as “the Assad regime” caved in to a Qatar sponsored ...
Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma and author of "Syria Comment" Foreign opinion Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma and author of " Syria Comment ". In this special interview for the Russian International ...
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