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r el-Qaddafi. It's true. But what an ally! What a thing to regret! And, now, the more Putin throws his support behind the murderous dictatorship of Bashar al- Assad in Syria, the more he looks like a person buying a round- trip ticket on the Titanic — after it has already hit the iceberg. Assad is a de

i. It's true. But what an ally! What a thing to regret! And, now, the more Putin throws his support behind the murderous dictatorship of Bashar al- Assad in Syria, the more he looks like a person buying a round- trip ticket on the Titanic — after it has already hit the iceberg. Assad is a dead man wal

kolas Gvosdev 03 Feb 2012 -- Now that the United States, France and other Western powers have endorsed the Arab League's call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down -- even if that formulation is ultimately edited out of the final draft of the resolution pending before the U.N. Security Council --

ouldn't Russia want to align itself with the emerging forces in Syria? "There is a strong domestic dimension to Russian policy toward Syria," said Vladimir Frolov, a Russian foreign policy expert. "If we allow the U.N. and the U.S. to put pressure on a regime — that is somewhat like ours — to cede power to th

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ns like the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Organization of American States, and to defend embattled allies like Syria's Bashar al-Assad. There is also growing replica- tion of what might be called authoritarian best practices, vividly on display in the new Chinese law on nongovernment

will not be long before their sovereignty erodes under pressure from the Kremlin. 50 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019284 --- PAGE BREAK --- Freedom House 1. Vladimir Frolov, “Rise and Fall of Surkov's Sovereign Democracy,” Moscow Times, May 13, 2013, https://themoscowtimes.com/arti- cles/rise-and-fall-of-surkovs-sovereig