Russia Stays Out of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Usually eager to intervene in the Middle East, Moscow has too much to lose from wading into this one.

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Israel and the Palestinian territories are engaged in their most intense bout of fighting in years, and there’s a major power not too far away with a recent string of successes brokering peace: Russia. The Kremlin is involved politically and militarily in Syria and Libya, mediated peace late last year in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, is […]

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Ekaterina Zolotova
Ekaterina Zolotova is an analyst for Geopolitical Futures. Prior to Geopolitical Futures, Ms. Zolotova participated in several research projects devoted to problems and prospects of Russia’s integration into the world economy. Ms. Zolotova has a specialist degree in international economic relations from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. In addition, Ms. Zolotova studied international trade and international integration processes. Her thesis was on features of economic development of Venezuela. She speaks native Russian and is fluent in English.