A STATUS OF JERUSALEM: THE POSITION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The article is devoted to the problem of the status of Jerusalem. Throughout its history, the city has repeatedly passed from hand to hand, always remaining a cult place for all Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. For this reason, the city has repeatedly caused the strife of the states of East and West. The 20th century was not an exception: the appearance on the world map of the State of Israel raised new disputes in the world community, and especially between Arabs and Jews, about the belonging of all Jerusalem and its parts to certain states. In December 2017, US President D. Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the Israeli state and announced the imminent transfer of the American embassy to the "city of David". This decision has turned Russia into actually the only global mediator in the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The aim of the article is to trace the change in the status of Jerusalem from 1948 to the present, and to analyse the positions of the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia on this issue at each particular period of history.