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• China believes Syria needs a peaceful solution | Liu Xiaoming
• Gorbachev: Putin has exhausted himself as Russian leader
• Syria: live from the frontline in Homs
• Russia’s posthumous trial of lawyer shows corruption is still rife | Ruth Collins
• Syria: UN offers help as Homs assault continues – live updates
• Syria: Assad pledges reform as siege of Homs continues – Wednesday 8 February
• Bashar al-Assad’s Syria offers Iran a springboard into the Arab Middle East
• Astroturfing: what is it and why does it matter? | Adam Bienkov
• The siege of Homs: scores killed in fifth day of shelling
• Intervention in Syria will escalate not stop the killing | Seumas Milne
• Syria: Assad pledges reform as siege of Homs continues – live updates
• Intervention in Syria will escalate, not stop the killing | Seumas Milne

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• Gorbachev: Russia faces turmoil as Putin won't change (Reuters) February 9, 2012
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Thursday Russia faced turmoil because Vladimir Putin was unable and unwilling to carry out fundamental reform of a tightly-controlled political system. Prime Minister Putin, facing the biggest protests of his 12-year rule, has tried to present himself to Russia's 109 million voters as a l […]
• Gorbachev: Putin has 'exhausted' his potential (AP) February 9, 2012
  MOSCOW – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has "exhausted" his potential as Russia's leader, Mikhail Gorbachev declared Thursday, saying Putin's inability to change the Kremlin's political system might prompt more massive anti-government protests. Putin — who became prime minister after serving as Russia's president from 2000 to 200 […]
• Russian oligarchs should pay privatization fee: Putin (Reuters) February 9, 2012
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seeking to return to the presidency in an election next month, said on Thursday large Russian companies privatized "dishonestly" in the 1990s should pay a fee to win public acceptance for the deals. "We need to close the period of the '90s, of what, speaking honestly, was dishonest privati […]
• Canada protests Russian arms support to Syria (AP) February 9, 2012
  TORONTO – A senior Canadian government official says Canada lodged a formal protest with Russia for supplying arms to the Assad regime in Syria. The official said Wednesday Canada's embassy in Moscow delivered a protest note to the Russian foreign ministry. He spoke on condition on anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to speak publicly. […]
• Russia's Putin warns against outside interference (Reuters) February 8, 2012
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the world faced a growing "cult of violence" and Moscow must not let events like those in Libya and Syria be repeated in Russia, warning the West against interference in a country he intends to lead for years to come. Weeks ahead of a March presidential election he is almost sure to win despite th […]

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