Yury Barmin and Leonid Issaev
YURY BARMIN is an Expert at the Russian International Affairs Council covering the Middle East and North Africa, Moscow’s policy towards the region as well as the conflict in Syria. LEONID ISSAEV is a senior lecturer at the Department for Political Science at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and senior research fellow at the Institute for African Studies at the Center for Civilization and Regional Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences.