1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
In focus
German election 2025SyriaCrisis in the Middle East
Latest audioLatest videos
Live TV
Politics

Moscow in the Middle East: Putin the power broker?

January 16, 2020

Russia has established itself as perhaps the key power broker in the Middle East, but is Vladimir Putin a warmonger or a peace-maker? Guests: Raghida Bahnam (freelance journalist), Daniel Gerlach (Middle East analyst), Vladimir Esipov (DW)

https://p.dw.com/p/3WJQa
Sendung To The Point 16.2020 | Raghida Bahnam
Image: DW

Raghida Bahnam, freelance journalist from Lebanon. She says: "Russia wants to be in a position to ease or worsen tensions in the region at will, deepen migration flows to Europe, and continue harassing America and its allies." 
 

Sendung To The Point 16.2020 | Vladimir Esipov
Image: DW

 

 

Vladimir Esipov from DW's Russian department points to a Russian saying that goes 'Holy space is never empty': "Russia has filled the vacuum created by others."

 

Sendung To The Point 16.2020 | Daniel Gerlach
Image: DW

 

 

Daniel Gerlach, editor-in-chief of the Middle East quarterly Zenith: "In the Middle East, Russia is making very efficient use of its very limited resources, which can't be said for countries in the West."