In the second of two articles on Russia’s Muslim strategy, Walter Laqueur observes that hostility to the United States and its allies inclines Russia’s elites towards an anti-Western alliance. This blinds them to threats close to home. These are, above all, demographic: while Russia’s population s
The Kremlin holds that Muslim countries are Russia’s natural allies against the West. Yet this policy is riven with contradictions, reflects the distinguished commentator Walter Laqueur in this two-part review. In the first article he examines Russia’s foreign policy since the fall of communism. I
