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On May 26, 2025 at 15.00 in Academician Inozemtsev conference Hall the next Georgy Mirsky Middle East Seminar “Russia, Turkey and the West: Specifics of Relations in the Current Geopolitical Situation” was held.

At the seminar, organized by the Center for the Middle East Studies of IMEMO, the following speakers made presentations: Amur Gadzhiev, a well-known Russian Turkologist, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Cand. of Science (History), and Turkish political scientist Yildiran Adjar, a researcher of Turkish foreign policy and Russian-Turkish relations. 

The speakers presented to the audience Russian and Turkish views on the issues of interaction in the Russia-Turkey-West triangle, which have become especially relevant at the current stage of development of the system of international relations and the escalation of confrontation between Moscow and Western countries.

The high level of Russian-Turkish cooperation in various spheres achieved in recent years and Ankara's uneasy relations with Western partners increase the significance of the topic raised. The keynote speakers' presentations were followed by a question and answer session and a free discussion on the topic of the seminar.