Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Aaron Korewa: Will Assad rescue Putin from the Ukrainian quagmire?
A video grab made on SepT. 30, 2015, shows an image taken footage made available on the Russian Defence Ministry's official website, purporting to show an airstrike in Syria.
For fifteen years, Gleb Pavlovsky worked as an adviser to Russian Presidents Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and the one-term Dmitry Medvedev. He was one of the chief architects behind the "power vertical" concept - the need for a strong leader in order to create stability. Freedom and democracy were supposed to "come later."