Qatari backtracking on labour rights and cooperation with Russia reflects new world order

Vladimir Putin gives Sheikh Tamim a falcon

By James M. Dorsey

A Qatari decision to backtrack on minimal improvements of the terms of employment of migrant workers, who account for a majority of the Gulf state’s population, and a Qatari investment in Russian oil company Rosneft PJSC, symbolize the emergence of a new global power structure with the rise of …