About the book: 2012 / A collection of articles by REGNUM news agency staff and authors "Explosion Point: Russia, the Caucasus and the Middle East" is published in Moscow. September 2012.” The collection includes articles partially published in REGNUM news agency in August and September: Oleg Ivannikov “Syria: Arab Roulette”, Stanislav Tarasov “The Middle East in the Face of the Sunni-Shiite War”, Stanislav Tarasov “Boomerang of the Arab Spring - from North Africa to Transcaucasia,” Stanislav Tarasov, “Anschluss for two Azerbaijans,” Oleg Ivannikov, “Georgian military initiatives and the security of Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” Vigen Hakobyan.” Epidemic of decay": from the Balkans to Central Asia", Konstantin Kazenin "North Caucasus: internal problems and their external echo", Modest Kolerov "New explosion points: Kurdistan, Karabakh, Russia».