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al West: laws giving official sanction to the terrorizing of gays and lesbians, the jailing of members of a punk protest group for offenses against the Russian Orthodox Church, the demonizing of Western-backed pro-democracy organizations as "foreign agents," expansive new laws on treason, limits on foreign adoptions. Wha
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ecause they need his help in Syria and Iran; his increasingly vivid nationalist-conservative ideology, which relies, not least, on the elevation of the Russian Orthodox Church, which had been so brutally suppressed during most of the Soviet period, as a quasi-state religion supplying the government with its moral force.

Marc Rich
PersonAmerican commodities trader (1934–2013)

United States
LocationCountry located primarily in North America

United Kingdom
LocationCountry in north-west Europe

Vladimir Putin
Person2nd and 4th President of Russia (2000-2008, 2012-present), 7th and 11th Prime Minister of Russia (1999-2000, 2008-2012), Director of the Federal Security Service (1998-1999) and Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg (1994-1996)

Barack Obama
PersonPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017

Bashar al-Assad
PersonPresident of Syria from 2000 to 2024
the American Embassy
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the Persian Gulf
LocationBody of water between Iran and Arabian Peninsula

Levant
LocationGeographic and cultural region consisting of the eastern Mediterranean between Anatolia and the Sinai Peninsula

Arab Spring
OrganizationOrganization referenced in documents
the Soviet Union
LocationFormer country, now part of Russia and other nations