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The Limits of Capabilities
Russia in Global Affairs. 2016. No. 3.
Тебин П. Ю.
Russia’s military operation in Syria has demonstrated a high level of combat readiness of the Russian Aerospace Forces and positive results of the military reform in general. This issue was discussed in detail in Ruslan Pukhov’s article “A Proving Ground of the Future” published in Russia in Global Affairs in March 2016. Media and expert attention to the Aerospace Forces’ actions is not surprising as this branch of the Armed Forces plays the main role in the Russian campaign against the radical Islamic State. Yet, equally important is the role played by the Russian Navy. It is interesting to analyze how its actions in Syria characterize the current state of the Russian Navy, especially as it continues its mission in the Eastern Mediterranean amid the partial withdrawal of the Russian force from Syria.
Боков Т. А., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 № 1 С. 207–217
This article analyzes demographic change within the Syrian Christian community during the armed conflict. The study draws on field data collected by the author in 2019–2024, including interviews with Syrian Christians and observations made while travelling across the country, alongside Vatican statistics on Eastern Catholic communities and media reports. The findings show that areas of ...
Added: March 6, 2026
Alexandrov B., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 1 С. 24–50
The article offers a Russian translation and commentary of Emar 18. This text from the Emar archives contains a decision by the king of Carchemish of the 13th century B.C. Ini-Teššub concerning the status of an Emarite called Kitta and his family. Kitta is recognized as a slave of Ini-Teššub’s brother, the prince Ḫešmi-Teššub, while the children of ...
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Zelenev E., Iliushina M., Iran and the Caucasus 2025 Vol. 4-5 No. 29 P. 435–450
Sultan al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri cannot be classified as an outstanding Mamluk ruler, but rather the opposite: his accession to power was a forced measure when all the more worthy claimants to the throne were unable to compete for power, so that the principle of negative selection came into play. The reign of al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri ...
Added: February 16, 2026
Боков Т. А., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2025 № 5 С. 168–178
This article examines the demographic dynamics of the Syrian Christian community in 1943‑2000, which is important for clarifying our understanding of the socio-political processes in the country at that period. It is noted that estimates of the Christian population of Syria during the 2000s vary significantly, ranging from 3% to 12% of the total population. A number of ...
Added: October 21, 2025
Royce D. P., Russia in Global Affairs 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3 P. 197–220
This article argues that Russia’s interests in Syria are limited to (1) strengthening Iran and (2) the maintenance of access to the Mediterranean and of air and naval bases on its shore. At this point, the maximal satisfaction of those interests at minimal cost would be provided by ‘Plan A’: drawing Turkiye towards Russia and ...
Added: October 16, 2025
Боков Т. А., Бокова Е. М., Христианство на Ближнем Востоке 2024 Т. 8 № 4 С. 5–17
Some Legal Aspects of the Situation of the Syrian Christians During the Presidency of Bashar Asad (2000–2024) This article clarifies a number of established historiographic ideas about the legal status of Christians in the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR) in the recent period based on a substantive analysis of the SAR’s legislation, as well as field ...
Added: March 1, 2025
Iliushina M., В кн.: Проблемы истории и источниковедения Ближнего Востока и Северной Африки в Средние века и Новое время.: М.: ИВ РАН, 2023. Гл. 2 С. 38–59.
Затяжные войны Султаната мамлюков с Дулкадиром и Ак Коюнлу во второй половине XV в. стали своеобразной прелюдией к первой османо-мамлюкской войне. Эмиры и беи анатолийских княжеств, хотя бы формально признававшие вассалитет по отношению к египетскому султану, получили веские основания для того, чтобы усомниться в непобедимости мамлюкской армии, а главное – в могуществе своего сюзерена, от которого зависел ...
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Issaev L., Bobarykina D., Russian Politics 2024 Vol. 9 No. 2 P. 289–313
In this article, we analyze how the operation of the Russian Aerospace forces is presented in the official Russian discourse. The analysis is based on a collected database of statements made by the Russian authorities. Relying on social identity theory, we argue that the Russian operation in Syria became a key element in changing the ...
Added: July 1, 2024
Orlov I., Новая и новейшая история 2024 № 2 С. 69–85
The unification between Egypt and Syria (1958–1961) not only played an important role in the history of these countries, but also had a significant impact on the development of the Arab world in the second half of the twentieth century. Despite its historical relevance, there are almost no detailed studies in Russian historiography that are ...
Added: May 7, 2024
Чернов Д. Н., Несмашный А. Д., Текин О. et al., Comparative Politics (Russia) 2023 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 149–163
The Arab Spring that began in Tunisia in 2010 quickly spread throughout the Middle East, fueling protests in many countries of the region, including Libya and Syria. While in Libya the UN Security Council supported NATO’s military intervention against the Gaddafi regime, the Syrian case caused disparity in views, with Russia and China vetoing the ...
Added: May 6, 2024
Zelenev E., Iliushina M., Iran and the Caucasus 2024 Vol. 28 No. 1 P. 30–41
The article focuses on the period of the Mamlūk transition of power in 1496–1501, which separates two historical eras: 1468–1496, the reign of al-Ashraf Qaytbay, which is associated with the political and cultural prosperity of the Circassian Sultanate, and 1501–1517, the reign of al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri (r. 1501–1516), a much less successful ruler whose death ...
Added: March 25, 2024
Aldgem B., Актуальные проблемы российского права 2022 Т. 17 № 1 С. 154–163
The paper is devoted to the topical problem in civil law in Russia and Syria, i.e., the right of ownership of residential premises, its registration and methods of protection. The paper presents the results of a comparison of regulatory support and the procedure for state registration of rights to housing in Russia and Syria. Similar ...
Added: February 12, 2024
Aldgem B., Вестник РГГУ. Серия: Экономика. Управление. Право 2022 № 3 С. 116–132
It is commonly recognized that the right to property is the most significant property right for society as a whole and for every citizen. However, the methods of making it public are not without their drawbacks. That fact confirms the relevance of the research topic. The article considers the Syrian crisis period from the beginning ...
Added: February 8, 2024
Korotayev A., Shishkina A., Critical Sociology 2024 Vol. 50 No. 1 P. 177–182
We show that in the post-revolutionary Tunisian case we are dealing here with the famous inverted J-curve effect that was first described by James C. Davies (1962)—risks of revolutionary destabilization are especially high when a pronounced economic slowdown comes after a few years of dynamic economic growth that creates inflated expectations. And this destabilization can ...
Added: November 15, 2023
Тебин П. Ю., Russia in Global Affairs 2014 No. 2
Naval power in the 21st century will probably play a greater role in foreign policies of maritime nations than in the 20th century. The 70/80/90 rule from the present U.S. naval strategy has already entered into wide use. This rule means that 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with seas and oceans, 80 ...
Added: September 21, 2023
Боков Т. А., В кн.: Ближний Восток и его соседи: сборник статей к 70-летию профессора Николая Николаевича Дьякова.: Арт-Экспресс, 2023.
В статье приведен и проанализирован ряд анекдотов на религиозную тематику, бытующих в среде сирийских христиан. Обоснована важность данного пласта устного народного творчества как источника по положению христиан САР на настоящем этапе истории этой страны, характерной чертой которого является повышенная чувствительность конфессиональных вопросов. Показано, что рассмотренный материал: • отражает беспокойство сирийских христиан, вызванное существованием в чуждой ...
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Frolov I., Тресорук А. А., Научные труды: Институт народнохозяйственного прогнозирования РАН 2022 С. 7–40
The article considers and substantiates new aspects of high-tech industries forecasting which develop theoretical and methodological constructs that describe "surroundings" of the forecasting object and the forecasting background. The shipbuilding industry was taken as an example of the forecasting object. The technical and economic indicators of the development of the shipbuilding industry in the years ...
Added: February 28, 2023
Baklanov A., Азия и Африка сегодня 2022 № 12 С. 23–30
The article draws attention to the serious intensification of Turkey's foreign policy, which seeks to become the most influential state in the Middle East region and to receive the status of one of the world's leading powers in the foreseeable future.
Ankara’s area of special attention is neighboring Syria. Turkey raises the question of the need ...
Added: February 1, 2023
Iliushina M., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2022 Т. 57 № 2 С. 33–41
In the chronicle “al-Qawl al-Mustaẓraf fī Safar Mawlānā al-Malik al-Ashraf” Abū al-Baqāʾ Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn al-Jīʿān (1443–1497) mentioned seven Mamluk amirs, who escorted the sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbay in his tour to Syria in 1477–1478. The purpose of the sultan’s journey was to inspect the fortifications in the northern regions of al-Shām. Only few emirs ...
Added: January 6, 2023
Korotayev A., Issaev L., Ivanov Y. et al., Europe-Asia Studies 2024 Vol. 76 No. 4 P. 613–631
The humanitarian crisis in Syria has fuelled the Circassian issue in Russia. Escaping from the war, hundreds of Syrian Circassians (Adyghe) chose Russia as their destination because their ancestors came to the Middle East from the North Caucasus. Syrian Circassians have faced difficulties in entering Russia and staying there regardless of the state’s ability to ...
Added: December 22, 2022
L.: C. Hurst & Co., 2022.
This book sheds light on Russia’s motives in the Middle East, examining its growing role in the region and its efforts to defend its national interests. As one of the first volumes to address both domestic and external drivers, it provides a valuable multi-dimensional account of Moscow’s foreign policy. Russian Foreign Policy Towards the Middle ...
Added: July 1, 2022