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Key alliances. Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shows the way to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, last October. (Reuters)

Russia set to build on Middle East policy successes

January 05, 2019

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Moscow, last April. (Reuters)

Russia benefits from Trump’s Iran deal withdrawal

May 12, 2018

A Russian soldier stands near a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin at Wafideen camp in Damascus, Syria, on March 2, 2018. (Reuters)

What’s ahead in the Middle East with six more years under Putin?

March 24, 2018

Putin may be less interested in bringing about an Israeli-Palestinian settlement than in portraying himself as more “even-handed” than Trump.

Can Putin mediate an Israeli-Palestinian settlement?

January 08, 2018