The Russian overseas empire is collapsing

First Syria, then Iran, and now Venezuela. Slowly, but surely, Vladimir Putin’s hopes of creating an alternative network of ...
The Week

Gilded cage: Inside Bashar al-Assad's life in exile a year after his fall

Assad's exile in Russia is a life of secluded luxury and political irrelevance, where he is wealthy and secure but silenced ...
Wall Street Journal

Bashar al-Assad

Syria defies Russia in bid to keep Assad in power even as the two allies prepare an offensive to retake Aleppo. Putin Backs Assad, Says Russian Warplanes Could Redeploy to Syria in Hours Russian ...
KESQ News

Syria’s interim president visits Putin in Moscow for first meeting since fall of Assad regime

(CNN) — Syria’s interim president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, travelled to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the first face-to-face contact the pair have had. The meeting ...
Al Jazeera on MSN

‘Closing his eyes’: Why is Russia’s Putin quiet on US abduction of Maduro?

Russia’s leader will seek to benefit from Washington’s intervention but will also worry he could be next, experts say.
Washington Examiner

Syria’s Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow, but Assad haunts event from the shadows

Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa touched down Wednesday in Moscow, the same city in which the dictator he overthrew now lives in protected luxury. Sharaa was in Russia to meet with President Vladimir ...
KCRW

Mr. Assad Goes to Moscow

It appears that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is not staying home anymore because he's afraid of a coup. Yesterday he visited Moscow at the invitation of Vladimir Putin, who has been giving ...