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Viktor Mikhin

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, specialist in the Arab countries of the Near and Middle East

Egypt: a Glorious Date in the History of the Suez Canal

July 26, 1956 is an important date in Egyptian history - it was the day President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. In his annual address to the nation from Manshia Square in Alexandria, he said that the famous canal would now become Egypt’s exclusive property and its people. Until then, the country had no control over it because a foreign firm ran...

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Iraq Returns to the Deadly Embrace of the US

US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi have signed an agreement officially ending the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, more than 18 years after US troops occupied the country. Combined with Biden’s withdrawal of the last US troops from Afghanistan by the end of August, the Democratic president completes the US combat missions...

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Relations Between Three African States Reached a Breaking Point due to Water Disputes

Ethiopia announced that it had completed the second phase of filling its controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD nearly two weeks after it began the process. This second filling was accomplished despite the lack of a legally binding agreement with Egypt and Sudan’s underlying countries...

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Ethiopia after its Parliamentary Elections that Failed to Resolve Anything

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The Slow Decay of a Once-Great Empire?

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Ethiopia on the Brink of Civil War

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The Baghdad Summit: A New Reality in the Middle East

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Yemen is Trapped as the US and Saudi Aggression Carried On

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