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The proposed paper seeks to answer the following questions. Has the region been witnessing a “budding alliance” of Russia and China in the Mediterranean or will the region generate a different pattern of Russia-Chinese interaction vis-à-vis other regions of their overlapping interests? Whether Russian and Chinese interests in the Eastern Mediterranean intersect or develop on the parallel tracks in a relative isolations one from each other? What is the reaction of the middle range regional players (like Turkey) and can rising Russian and Chinese presence accommodate them?