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September 16, 2011

Moscow Struggles to Find a Mideast Policy

Jon Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun

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These different visions have produced an approach to the upheaval in the Middle East that often seems confused and sometimes contradictory.

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TAGGED: Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Libya, Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Russia

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