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Putin struggles to renew strategic guard in Middle East

Faced with significant diplomatic and security stakes in that part of the world, the Kremlin is renewing the close guard of siloviki in charge of Russian strategy in the Midle East. But it is struggling to include the younger generation. [...] (284 words)

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