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Alexey Malashenko Meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia S.V. Lavrov with the Prime Minister of Israel B. Tanyahu Mid.ru Israel rejected Russian proposals for Syria, reports Reuters news agency with reference to its own sources in Israel, familiar with the situation.

Alexey Malashenko The Al-Axa mosque. Archive photo Mary Madigan Relations between Israel and Palestine sharply aggravated after the Israeli authorities decided to establish metal detectors on the approaches to the temple mountain in Jerusalem. Israel took this step after three police officers were fired near the temple mountain. Two of them died.

We continue to publish the materials of the book “Putin's Russia: how it arose, how it exists and how it can end”, published in 2015 by the American Institute of Entrepreneurship (American Enterprise Institute). The authors of the publication are famous scientists and experts in various fields of social knowledge. Publication is carried out with the kind resolution of AEI (Washington, DC).

How can the "national subjects" of the Russian Federation in the presidential election in a crisis can lead themselves Today Ramzan Kadyrov is scaring the opposition, tomorrow it can come into conflict with the Kremlin, Moscow, December 23, 2015 The systemic economic crisis persistently continues to destabilize the situation in the country. The question is where and when the abscess bursts. Regarding time and place, different assumptions are built.

Georgy Ilyich Mirsky is a common patriarch of orientalists, Arabists and Islamic scholars. This is a person who all his long life, almost 90 years, gave a profession that, once chosen, he never changed. He had such a huge number of publications that their full list occupies a whole brochure. Mirsky has always been engaged in politics a lot.

The recent fashion for comparing Russia and Ottoman Turkey as former successful empires that fell into force of the most difficult internal circumstances and the “external factor” disappeared in a matter of days. Previously, such an analogy, often carried out by historians, even politicians, supported in the Russian and Turkish elite a kind of nostalgia for a bright past, according to the times of the unconditional greatness of these superpowers.

"Carnegies" on "Medusa". Alexey Malashenko - about how Ramzan Kadyrov is fighting Photo: Frank Sorge / Caro / Alamy / Vida Press Medusa begins a joint project with the Moscow Center of Carnegie . From today, read the most interesting analytics from the authors of the center - historians, political scientists, and specialists in international relations - at Medusa.

REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri Will we see a “limited Russian contingent” in the Middle East? The question still remains without a definitive answer. On the one hand, information appears in the media that Russian military personnel have already been spotted in Syria, that they are even fighting against the “Islamic State” ( the organization is recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of the Russian Federation ), and reinforcements continue to arrive.

So, an agreement on a nuclear program between Iran and six intermediaries (Great Britain, Germany, China, the USA, Russia and France) has been reached. It includes five points, the most important of which is the restriction of the Uranus enrichment program (in particular, the reduction in the number of centrifuge from 19 to 6 thousand), the export of most uranium abroad, while the country's nuclear objects will not be dismantled.

Within two days, two terrorist acts occurred at different ends of the Earth. In Sydney, a certain emigrant from Iran captured two dozen people to the cafe. On the window of the building, the man hung a flag with inscriptions in Arabic. Some media suggested that this is a symbol of the Islamic State terrorist group. This man, presumably mental ill, was well known to the Australian authorities.

In the economy Russia and Iran come closer on the basis of values September 9, 2014 Alexey Malashenko In Tehran, the Russian-Iranian business forum began. In parallel, a meeting of the intergovernmental commission of the two countries is also planned. Already during the opening of the forum, the Minister of Oil Iran Bizhan Namdar Zangan noted that Russia and Iran can increase the trade turnover by 10 times, to $ 15 billion a year.

Putin held a number of permutations in the government and the presidential administration, and at the same time created a new ministry - on the affairs of the North Caucasus. This is the third “territorial” agency created specifically for work in a particular region, just as ministries in Crimea and the Far East will work.

photo RIA Novosti, Rex Features At first glance, the situation around Syria has changed suddenly. In fact, this is quite an expected change In 2003, the attack on Iraq was inevitable. And today analysts recall the Iraq conflict, comparing it with the Syrian one. However, the situation in Syria is fundamentally different from Iraq. The current strike will not solve the Syrian problem. Nobody needs him.

Ramazan Abdulatipov is a rather convenient candidate for the Kremlin as the head of Dagestan. He has the experience of federal politics - he was the chairman of the Council of Nationalities, the Minister, the Ambassador to Tajikistan, and the rector of the University of Culture. He is managing, but at the same time ambitious, initiative, that is, he will be ready to fulfill the tasks that will set him. He himself wants to be president, and he wants to.