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From the Milosevics to the Assads: Who else is "hiding" in Moscow?

2024-12-11 23:03:45Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
From the Milosevics to the Assads: Who else is "hiding" in Moscow?
Assad's family

Deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has found refuge with his family in Russia, joining a growing group of authoritarian leaders and exiles who have sought refuge in Moscow, AFP agency reports.

Bashar al-Assad

From the Milosevics to the Assads: Who else is "hiding" in Moscow?

Assad fled Syria with his family to Russia after a lightning offensive by the rebel coalition, the official Russian news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS reported on Sunday.

They reportedly arrived in Moscow on Sunday evening after being granted asylum, but there is no information on their exact location or how many family members accompanied Assad.

A possible escape to Russia was already discussed after the outbreak of the civil war in Syria in 2011, and especially before the Russian military intervention in 2015 that allowed Assad to remain in power.

In April 2014, as Assad was battling rebel forces, former senior Russian official Sergei Stepashin met him in Damascus. Stepashin said the then-Syrian leader conveyed his message.

"Tell Vladimir Vladimirovych (Putin) that I am not Yanukovych and I am not going anywhere," he said, referring to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in 2014.

Viktor Yanukovych

From the Milosevics to the Assads: Who else is "hiding" in Moscow?

Ukraine's former pro-Russian president left in February 2014 after about 100 people died in an attempt to suppress the Maidan Revolution protest movement that brought a pro-Western government to power.

Shortly after, Russia annexed Crimea and backed pro-Russian separatists opposing Kiev in eastern Ukraine. Yanukovych claimed he was the victim of a coup. He was removed from Ukraine by military officers loyal to him.

He did not comment on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, only to strip President Zelensky of his Ukrainian citizenship in February 2023.

Edward Snowden

From the Milosevics to the Assads: Who else is "hiding" in Moscow?

Snowden, who is wanted by Washington for publishing tens of thousands of classified National Security Agency documents detailing US surveillance programs, has been in Russia since June 2013.

He tried, but failed, to reach Cuba and several Latin American countries. Putin granted him Russian citizenship in 2022.

Snowden, who lives in Russia with his wife Lindsay Mills and their two sons, said becoming Russian would help provide stability for his family.

Askar Akayev

Elected president of Kyrgyzstan after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Askar Akayev was overthrown in 2005 in the so-called "Tulip Revolution" and fled to Russia.

A trained scientist, he now teaches at Moscow State University.

Despite being stripped of his presidential status, he was not prosecuted and was allowed to return to Kyrgyzstan and visit it at least once (2021).

Akayev's successor, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, was also overthrown in a 2010 uprising and lives in exile in Belarus, a Russian ally.

The Milosevic family

From the Milosevics to the Assads: Who else is "hiding" in Moscow?

Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was removed from power in 2000 and extradited to stand trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where he died in 2006.

His wife Mirjana Markovic and son Marko settled in Russia. Mirjana died there in 2019, AFP reports.

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