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January 22, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-sending-aircraft-to-evacuate-its-citizens-from-syria/2013/01/21/c747b6dc-6406-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop

Russia Sending Aircraft to Evacuate its Citizens from Syria

(Reuters-Washington Post) Thomas Grove and Steve Gutterman - Russia is sending two planes to Lebanon on Tuesday to evacuate more than 100 of its citizens from Syria in the clearest sign yet that Moscow may be preparing for President Bashar al-Assad's possible defeat. Moscow is also carrying out its largest naval exercises since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, including off Syria's coast, which analysts say are meant to underscore its interest in the region.

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