继承了决定其国民性的帝国传统的俄罗斯正在重新树立其在中东的地位和作用，堪与帝俄时代和斯大林时代相媲美。
Heir to an imperial tradition that has shaped its national identity, Russia is resuming in the Middle East a role and status more in tune with the one it had from the Czarist era to Soviet times.