The expert told about the renewal of cooperation directions of the Russian Federation and the causes of destabilization of the Eastern Mediterranean.

"What needs to be addressed, but what is being said a little now: what is the Eastern Mediterranean, especially its part located between Egypt, along the coast of Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, towards Syria, towards Cyprus and Greece? This is a zone for the development of potential deposits of hydrocarbons, primarily gas, large deposits, opened in the early 2000's,and now they are being started to be developed.These resources are not needed for Russian interests. This is a competitive to Russian potential gas resources that will come to the European market. Just as in the situation with Iran, Iranian gas, as with Syria, which was supposed to be transit country for both Iran and Qatar gas to Europe. Russia benefits from destabilization of the region so that no projects that require large-scale investments have ever been made, and additional gas resources that can be extracted have not entered the European market, so it will do everything," Gonchar said.

He also told about new directions of Russia's work on cooperation in the East: "For Russia it is now advantageous to reorient its interests from its strategic allies in the Middle East to Egypt. And we see that Russian-Egyptian military-political cooperation has intensified.It’s even said that Russian contingents can be deployed on the Sinai Peninsula. Of course, to “stabilize” the Middle East".

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