“Saudi-Russian Relations: Past and Present”
On april 17-18, in Riyadh - the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - the scientific symposium “Saudi-Russian relations: past and present” was held. It was jointly organized by the Center for Research and Intercommunication Knowledge (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), led by Dr. Yahya Ibn Junayd and the Institute for African Studies of RAS. The symposium was attended by Russian Arabists, orientalists - Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies, RAS, Academician A.M. Vasiliev, Head of the Laboratory of Risks of Socio-Political Destabilization of the Higher School of Economics, Doctor of History A.V. Korotaev, professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation A.Vavilov, senior researcher IAF RAS, Ph.D. Kukushkin V.Yu., Head of the Centre for North African and African Horn Studies, Ph.D. Tkachenko A.A. From the Saudi side - Dr. Turki bin Fahd bin Abdullah Al-Saud, Dr. Abdel Aziz bin Salma - Deputy Minister of Information of KSA, Dr. Mansour al-Marzuki - Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Diplomacy named after King Saud Faisal, Dr. Abdullah Muhammad Hussein - writer, expert-Russian scholar, Dr. Ali al-Husheyban - columnist of the newspaper Riyadh, Dr. Saleh Haslan - Member of the Advisory Council (Shura) KSA, Dr. Abdullah Abdel Mohsen al-Farraj is a fellow at the Center for Arab Studies.
