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Putin Says Conditions Needed to End War in Syria Have Been Reached

Putin and Erdogan agree to push for de-escalation zones in Syria, particularly in IS-held Idlib province.

(MEE) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the de facto conditions needed to end Syria’s civil had been achieved, after meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Putin‘s comments, which followed talks with Erdogan in Ankara, come as Russia, Turkey and Iran cooperate on maintaining de-escalation zones in Syria.

Operation Moldova: A New NATO Anti-Russia War Project

In the forty-seventh edition of the Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the articles from four Russian newspapers: Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Kommersant, Izvestia, and Nezavisimaya Gazeta. He discusses the escalating political and constitutional crisis in Moldova, the site of another proxy war-in-the-making between NATO and Russia in Eastern Europe, and the statements on North Korea made by the Russian president Vladimir Putin, the Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, and the South Korean president Moon Jae-in during the Far Eastern Economic Forum.