Against the background of the seemingly unending revolutionary uprisings across the Arab world, the nervous reaction of the Kremlin to these events have become particularly noticeable. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. At a session in Vladikavkaz, President Dmitry Medvedev said: “The situation, which has evolved in the Near East and in the Arab world – it is most heavy… It is quite probable that there will be difficult events [across the Arab world] that may bring fanatics to power. This is going to signify fires and the further spread of extremism for decades to come. We should look the truth in the eye. They prepared the same scenario for us before and they will most certainly try to do it again now. In any case, this scenario will fail. But everything taking place there is going to render direct influence on our situation, moreover what is being spoken of is a sufficiently lengthy perspective, what is being spoken of is the perspective of decades.”