sentences:  In 2009, the forum was expanded to also include the discussion of various nuclear projects.Arab Russian relations goes far since the Khazars and their wars with the Arab Empire, but has flourished most under the Soviet Union, with the Communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' support for several Socialist Arab regimes against the Capitalist United States during the cold war, regimes like Nasser's Egypt and the Baathist regimes of Syria and Iraq, as well as other Socialist regimes in Libya and South Yemen.After the end of the cold war and the establishment of the Russia Federation, new ties have been made.