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February 9, 2012

What's Russia Up to in Syria?

Michael Young, Daily Star

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What strange tea are the Russians brewing in their diplomatic samovar? Foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, visited Damascus on Tuesday with the foreign intelligence chief, Mikhail Fradkov, and made a statement afterward that was, at best, ambiguous. That’s not a good sign when Syrians are crying for clarity.

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