Help translate,please!

[Slam Juice]

And as Georgy Mirsky, a Moscow-based analyst, argues, for one reason or another the Middle East is the best place for Russia to do it.

Как перевести Moscow-based?

[colossus]

проживающий (обретающийся) в Москве

[kotechek]

а почему не сказать "московский аналитик"?

[Slam Juice]

Проживающий в Москве? Вот и мне интересно, зачем они пишут Moscow-based...

[Slam Juice]

The public rationale is that Hamas won a democratic election; that di¬alogue is better than isolation; and, more¬over, that Russia has not officially desig¬nated Hamas a terrorist group, as other governments have: perhaps it can be con¬verted to peaceful politics, as was the Irish Republican Army.

Как перевести public rationale?

Спасибо.

[senin]

Moscow-based as analyst not as Georgy Mirsky. He can spend two days in his Moscow office doing analytics and the rest of the week with his kids in Midlands.

[mahavishnu]

может быть, по логике вещей, по общепринятому мнению

[Slam Juice]

Спасибо!!!!! Думаю " по общепринятому мнению" и оставлю.