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Russian East Med ambitions anger the Lebanese, confuse the Turks Ankara’s obtaining advance intelligence about the Russian-Syrian agreement is likely to have been behind the Turkish offer of assistance to Lebanon. Friday 02/04/2021 A file picture shows a Lebanese man running on the Mediterranean waterfront as a drilling ship is seen off the coast of Dbayeh, north of Beirut. (AP) DAMASCUS - Russia has  joined in the race for eastern Mediterranean gas, taking advantage of an earlier agreement with the Syrian regime. This nine year-old deal allowed Russian companies to explore for oil and gas in Syria’s territorial waters in exchange for Moscow’s direct military intervention that saved the regime of President Bashar Assad from collapse.

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