Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was reelected for a fourth term securing 95% of the vote and thus lengthening the Assad family s control of the Syrian presidency.[1] Unsurprising
26.05.2021, 8:20
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The question of what to do with the dictator is being decided both in the West and in Moscow.
The Russian edition Kommersant published an article on the prospects for the upcoming meeting between Putin and Lukashenka in Moscow.
“The question of what to do with Lukashenka is probably coming to the fore both for the civilized West and for Moscow,” writes
Dmitry Drize, a political observer of the Russian Kommersant.
The author of the publication emphasizes that there is still no clarity about why Lukashenka is going to Sochi, what will be discussed there, and how everything will end. In his opinion, all previous meetings ended with traditional assurances of eternal friendship against the background of a terrible, hostile West :
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