Of Russian Prospects in the Middle East
December 17, 2019
Center for Strategic and International Studies
This podcast originally appeared on the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) website.
In this episode of Russian Roulette, Jeffrey Mankoff, senior fellow at CSIS's Russia and Eurasia Program, sits down with Alexey Khlebnikov, Middle East/North Africa expert at the Russian International Affairs Council and private consultant at various think tanks around the world. They discuss Moscow’s successes and failures in Syria as well as the changes in the region that have taken place since Russia’s military intervention in Syria. Khlebnikov also discusses how the U.S. and Russia could cooperate in the Middle East.
Photo by Kremlin.ru shared under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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