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Lyukmanov to Cairo: what the consensus is misreading about a routine ambassador
Listen to Sherif Al-Mahdi's latest column.
Born in Heliopolis to a doctor and a literature professor. Covered the second intifada, Iraq war embedded with British forces, Arab Spring as Reuters Cairo bureau chief. Speaks classical Arabic, Egyptian colloquial, fluent English and French. Reads two newspapers in print every morning.
15 articles · ~38 min total reading
The appointment reads as diplomatic housekeeping. It is not. Read backwards from the second decree, and Moscow has told Cairo something specific.
A president says the strait will be annexed 'soon.' Walk back through the wires and you find a war logic already installed — and a gas pump quietly primed to explain it.
Цель по возобновляемым источникам на 2028 год оказывается на одном столе со свежим конкурсом лицензий на четырнадцать нефтегазовых блоков. Порядок объявлений имеет значение.
