On April 1, 2015, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted a round table on "The Yemeni crisis: Domestic political aspects and external challenges". Opening the scientific event, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member. RAS V. V. Naumkin drew the attention of the audience to the deeply divided nature of society in Yemen. In his report "Internal Political Aspects of the crisis in Yemen", CAI researcher S. N. Serebrov examined the causes of a new international military conflict: the strengthening of the political positions of the Houthi Ansarullah movement; the causes of diametric differences in assessments of the implementation of the international plan for a peaceful settlement of the Yemeni crisis, page 149 launched in 2011 between the KSA (one of its authors and leading sponsors) and the chief executive of the UN Security Council mission in Yemen to implement the same plan, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General John Kerry. Benomar; the impact of the KSA intervention (with the participation of 9 other coalition countries with the support of the United States) on the internal political situation in Yemen. The Houthi Ansarullah movement in Yemen was born in 1997. By 2014, it had become one of the leading political forces in Yemen. Its origins lie in the Zaydite revival youth movement Shabab Mumin. Sayyid Hussein Badruddin al-Houthi became the main ideologue of Houthiism. Its success was facilitated by the high status of the authoritative Hashemite spiritual clan al-Houthi, which is associated with many Haulyan and Bakil tribes, which are dominant in the province of Saada. In 1997-2001, its activities were primarily aimed at protecting and rehabilitating the historical and cultural heritage of Zaydism, an autochthonous Islamic teaching followed by a third of the country's population, from the attacks of Wahhabism, a proselytizing teaching that came from the neighbor ... Читать далее