Russia's Greater Middle East Policy: Security Economic Interests, Courting Islam
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2010-06-02T20:19:42Z
Authors
Katz, Mark N.
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Russia‘s foreign policy toward the Greater Middle East is not an aggressive, anti-Western one, but a defensive policy aimed more at protecting Russian economic interests, working with virtually any government that opposes Sunni radicalism, and preventing Moscow from becoming a target of Muslim anger as occurred during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (1979-1989) and Chechnya (since 1994).
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International affairs, Russia