A possible realignment in the Middle East?
http://www.ng.ru/economics/2017-12-21/100_germbuss2112.html
https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2017/12/21/746039-kitaiskaya-metallurgiya
https://lenta.ru/articles/2017/12/21/cosmos/
http://www.finanz.ru/novosti/aktsii/kitay-zabrakoval-ceny-na-rossiyskiy-gaz-1011685032
In the final months of 2017, the most significant advance in Russia’s relationship with Latin America was arguably the inclusion of eight Latin American teams in the 32-team field for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Russia was almost absent from media coverage of the BRICS+ summit in Xiamen in September 2017 and Vladimir Putin’s address to the APEC summit in Da Nang, Vietnam in November did not even mention Latin America. In contrast to high-profile Russian political and military initiatives in Latin America in 2008 and 2013–2014, its engagement with the region in 2017 has been uneven.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/russian-engagement-latin-america-update
http://expert.ru/2017/12/14/maksim-oreshkin-rossiya-poprobuet-perehvatit-upravlenie-povestkoj-v-vto/
http://expert.ru/northwest/2017/46/vmeste-na-eksport/
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3493754
https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2017/12/11/744780-roste-prodazh-oruzhiya