Moscow monitors situation in Algeria as protests continue - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Vasily Kuznetsov

Vasily Kuznetsov

Mar 13, 2019

Algerian youths march with national flags during a demonstration in the centre of the capital Algiers on March 11, 2019, after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his withdrawal from a bid to win another term in office and postponed an April 18 election, following weeks of protests against his candidacy. - Bouteflika, in a message carried by national news agency APS, said the presidential poll would follow a national conference on political and constitutional reform to be drawn up by the end of 2019. ( — Algerian youths march with national flags during a demonstration in the center of the capital, Algiers, Algeria, March 11, 2019. — RYAD KRAMDI/AFP/Getty Images

Media and police surround a convoy of police vehicles as businessmen suspected of corruption are driven to court in Algiers, Algeria April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - RC1E854AE410

Algeria officials show growing signs of desperation as protests push on

Simon Speakman Cordall

Simon Speakman Cordall

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) meets Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the presidential palace in Algiers February 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (ALGERIA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3DNG9

Algeria buys Russian arms but keeps Moscow at arm's length

Paul J. Saunders

Paul J. Saunders

In Washington, DC, reporting on Russia in the Middle East

A man browses a phone in the shade of a tree while a construction worker shields his head from the sun with a water bottle while walking along a street in Algiers on July 18, 2023 during a heat wave. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Algeria hit by water protests as climate crisis deepens

Adam Lucente

In New York City, reporting on regional news, militancy, climate change

Mohammed Maazab, a Libyan member of the General National Congress (GNC) and head of the talks with the United Nations, adresses journalists on March 12, 2015 in Skhirat, near the Moroccan capital Rabat, where a new round of UN-mediated crisis talks between representatives from Libya's rival parliaments is supposed to start. Libya's internationally recognised parliament which is based in the eastern city of Tobruk confirmed they requested to postpone the start of the talks in Morocco aimed at forming a unity

Morocco, Algeria compete over Libya

Imad Stitou