they need stability and predictability and they think president assad is giving this stability and all this creating uncertainty because nobody who are they and who will be in power would they win. >> do you think, professor, that the united states and the west now have faces a common enly alongside russia of islamistism, the danger of the chechnians and the danger of the people in al qaeda? do we see the same enemy across the frontier? >> i would not say that islam the enemy to west or to russia. but russia live with the islam peacefully for last 400 years and they had no problems. but of course, all the extremists are very dangerous there and when the u.s. started fighting there, especially when you have this fighting in syria, fighting between different religious groups, the islamist