Russia Has More Important Goals Than One-Upping US in Middle East
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Russia's geostrategic objectives in the Middle East don't include "one-upping" the United States, Russian academic Boris Dolgov stresses, adding that Moscow's major goal is to bolster cooperation with the regional players to defeat Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) and curtail its spread in Central Asia and the North Caucasus.