Boiler with troubles. Russia and a new big game in the Middle East. Satanovsky E.Ya.

What is the Near and Middle East? Who controls the region: dynasties and dictators? Why is democracy in the Muslim Middle East only Islamic? Who and how are trying to influence the region - and what does anyone do. About regional superpower and imperial ambitions. Who: the new caliphate, the new Ottoman port or the new Persian Empire? Russia without allies - who is Moscow in the region friend, enemy and partner?

This is not an encyclopedia, not a reference and not a collection of travel stories. But in this book you can find information about the region, which is the source of the main threats to the whole world. The Middle and Middle East are oil and gas, world -famous resorts and the largest arms and military equipment markets on the planet. This is the cradle of modern civilization and the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But this is a source of terrorism and drug dealer, which is dangerous for Russia, the European Union, the United States, India and China - a real “boiler with troubles”. Everything is impossible to know about him, but to understand what exactly happens in space from the North African coast of the Atlantic to the borders of India and from Somalia to the Russian border is useful for survival.