A roundtable, Changes in the USSR and Eastern Europe and Issues in the Middle and Near East, at Novosti Press Agency. From left: Vyacheslav Kovalenko, staff member, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR; V. Kuzmin, staff member, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. Center: Sadim Musafir, correspondent with the Syrian magazine Al Fursan. From right: Alexander Nekipelov, Deputy Director, Institute for International Economic and Political Studies (currently Institute for International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences); Vladimir Isayev, Head, Department of Economy of Arab Countries, Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Russian Academy of Sciences).
