Arab Spring

World Bank hints on new Arab Spring

World Bank hints on new Arab Spring

Soaring energy and food prices triggered by the crisis in Ukraine could exacerbate existing food security concerns in the Middle East and Africa

Putin: attempts to establish uni-polar world have failed

Putin: attempts to establish uni-polar world have failed

The attempts to establish a one-polar world order have failed, and the balance on the international arena restores, Russia's President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with a weekly program on the NTV channel. "The situation is changing," he said...

Gaddafi did not deserve to die like that, Oleg Peresypkin says

Gaddafi did not deserve to die like that, Oleg Peresypkin says

The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USSR to Libya (1984-1986), employee of the Center for Eastern Studies of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Professor Oleg Peresypkin, believes that the main reason for …

Grigoriy Lukyanov on political situation in Libya

Grigoriy Lukyanov on political situation in Libya

A specialist in the modern history of Libya and the Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa of the Faculty of Humanities of the HSE, Grigory Lukyanov, analyzed the current situation in Libya, and also spoke about how the political …

Fifth year of Arab Spring in Middle East

Fifth year of Arab Spring in Middle East

The dream about free and fair Arab world wasn't realized, and even turned into nightmares, as the disorganized liberalism failed to defeat the Islamists. Today is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the 'Arab Spring', …