4/4: The Kremlin sends in the Syrian conqueror. Anna Borshchevskaya.
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Photo: Wall of sorrow at the first exhibition of the victims of Stalinism in Moscow
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4/4: The Kremlin sends in the Syrian conqueror. Anna Borshchevskaya.
Putin's War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence, by Anna Borshchevskaya. Hardcover – November 4, 2021
Putin intervened in Syria in September 2015, with international critics predicting that Russia would overextend itself and Barack Obama suggesting the country would find itself in a “quagmire” in Syria. Contrary to this, Anna Borshchevskaya argues that in fact Putin achieved significant key domestic and foreign policy objectives without crippling costs, and is well-positioned to direct Syria's future and become a leading power in the Middle East.
This outcome has serious implications for Western foreign policy interests both in the Middle East and beyond. This book places Russian intervention in Syria in this broader context, exploring Putin's overall approach to the Middle East—historically, Moscow has a special relationship with Damascus—and traces the political, diplomatic, military and domestic aspects of this intervention.
Borshchevskaya delves into the Russian military campaign and public opinion within Russia, as well as Russian diplomatic tactics at the United Nations. Crucially, this book illustrates the impact of Western absence in Syria, particularly US absence, and what the role of the West is, and could be, in the Middle East.
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The first exhibition on the crimes of Stalinism, called "Week of Conscience," was held thanks to Perestroika in November 1988 at the club of the Moscow electric lamp factory.
Date | 19 November 1988 / Source | Own work / Author | Dmitry Borko
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The first exhibition on the crimes of Stalinism, called "Week of Conscience," was held thanks to Perestroika in November 1988 at the club of the Moscow electric lamp factory.
Date | 19 November 1988 / Source | Own work / Author | Dmitry Borko
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