“Dialogue for the future - 2018”: the fourth day. From the West - to the Middle East

On December 6, the project “Dialogue for the Future – 2018” brought together contrasting themes: the common future of Russia and Western countries, problems of the state in the Middle East and the history of the Korean Peninsula.

I.O. Abramova, Director of the Institute for African Studies of RAS, D.Sc. (Econ), Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, stressed that Russia has recently become a major player in the Middle East: “Our policy in the region is one of the most successful. But you need to understand that in this region, Russia will not have permanent allies and it is more useful to build temporary alliances. The whole system of international relations is unbalanced today and nobody knows its further development. The global balance of power is changing, and as well as the economic basis is shifting from West to East.
Will the Middle East become the point where this unstable system will not come to a new level, but will be even more chaos? Yes, it is possible. But Russia, as a major eurasian power, has the opportunity to play a certain role in order to prevent this final chaos.”