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January 28, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/27/world/europe/russia-syria/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Russia: Assad's Grip on Power "Slipping Away"

(CNN) Matt Smith - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's odds of holding power "are slipping away," Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told CNN on Sunday. Russia has "never said that our goal was to preserve the current political regime, or making sure that President Assad stays in power," he added. "That decision has to be made by the Syrian people." Medvedev said he personally lobbied Assad to open up his regime to reform and that his resistance was an "important, if not fatal" mistake.

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