...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...has said that Russia's "policy to support Syria, the Syrian leadership, and the Syrian people remains unchanged."
Putin was speaking at a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem at the Kremlin on June 29.
At a presser with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, Muallem said he had been assured that "Russia will continue to help Syria politically, economically, and militarily."
Putin also exhorted all Middle East countries to "pool their efforts together" to fight Islamic myrmidons, especially the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
bully boy group, which holds large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.