Friday, 22 January 2016

Kremlin Denies Claims Russia Asked Assad To Step Down Last Year

Ahead of the (apparently delayed) Syrian peace talks the Financial Times' story was a bit of a bombshell this morning.
First up, from The Interpreter:

Live Updates: The Kremlin has denied claims published by the
Financial Times that the late GRU chief, Igor Sergun, had travelled to
Syria to ask, without success, that Bashar al-Assad step aside.

The previous post in our Putin in Syria column

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