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“That Boy” — What Lebanon’s Slain Prime Minister Got Right About Bashar Al-Assad

"That Boy" — What Lebanon's Slain Prime Minister Got Right About Bashar Al-Assad
Photos of President Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad, on a street corner in Damascus in 2010. Serkan Senturk/ZUMA

After meeting Bashar al-Assad, then heir to the Syrian dictatorship, then Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said he feared for the country’s future.

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Moscow’s Pro-War “Z” Brigade Finds A Favorite New Target: Ordinary Russians

​A huge 'Z' symbol hangs on the Tabakova theater in Moscow. The 'Z' began to be used by the Russian government as a pro-war propaganda motif, and has been appropriated by pro-Putin civilians as a symbol of support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A huge 'Z' symbol hangs on the Tabakova theater in Moscow. The 'Z' began to be used by the Russian government as a pro-war propaganda motif, and has been appropriated by pro-Putin civilians as a symbol of support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Celestino Arce Lavin/ZUMA

Disappointed by poor gains over the past three years in Ukraine, Russia’s pro-war Z community is blaming a new scapegoat. Russian writer and historian Ivan Philippov explains why a society that just wants to live and to work is now their main enemy.

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