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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s//afp/20080819/wl_mideast_afp/russiasyriadiplomacy_080819091521

Syrian President Visits Russia

[AFP] Last year, Russian media reported that Moscow had delivered MiG-31 fighter planes and modern air defense systems to Syria, angering Israel. Damascus is a Soviet-era ally of Moscow, which maintained a naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus starting in the 1970s. The Russian media has speculated in recent years that Moscow is hoping to revive the base.

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