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The Russian Foreign Ministry has compiled a list of Syrian oppositionists, who are supposed to be involved in negotiations with representatives of the government of Bashar al -Assad. According to Kommersant, a document that the head of the foreign policy, Sergei Lavrov, handed over to colleagues from the USA, Saudi Arabia and Turkey at negotiations in Vienna, included former and current leaders of the National Coalition of the Syrian revolutionary and opposition forces, as well as other organizations.

In total, the list includes 38 names-these are ex-chairman Nurses Ahmad al-Jarba, Ahmed Muaz al-Khatyb and Hadi al-Bather, former Secretary General Badr Jamus, as well as the current leader of Khaled Khoja. It was Nurses in November 2012 that was recognized by 27 EU countries and the Persian Gulf states - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait - "The legal representative of the aspirations of the Syrian people." In August, the Nursa delegation visited Moscow, but there was no rapprochement of positions on the results of the visit.

Also, members of the National Coordinating Committee, associations created in June 2011 with left -wing parties, three Kurdish parties, as well as independent political and youth activists were also obtained in the document. The Russian list among others includes the chief coordinator of the NKK Hassan Abdel-Azim and the former foreign coordinator Haisam Mann.

The list also included the current representatives of the Syrian National Council, the Liberal Movement "Damaskaya Spring", the Organization "Democratic Tribuna", "The Popular Front for Changes and Liberation", the Movement for the Pluralistic Society, the Party of Communist Action, the Party of Construction of the Syrian State and the Party of Syrian Unity. Representatives of the religious and ethnic associations of Syria-the Christian movement for democracy and the world, the Muslim Brothers, communities of the Assyrians, the Kurdish Party of the Democratic Union, and the north-east of the country are also mentioned in the list. In addition, there are representatives of the local authorities of the north -east of Syria, influential businessmen, as well as representatives of the intelligentsia - actor Jamal Suleiman and human rights activist, an astrophysician from the imperial college of London Rome Turkmani.

As the publication notes, according to the American Carter Center in Syria over the past four years, about 7 thousand armed opposition groups, fighting not only with the Assad government, but also with the militants of the Islamic State, as well as among themselves. The representative of the Dama Declaration for Democratic Changes "Mahmoud al-Khamza has already stated that the list includes" the names of many people who have practically nothing to do with the opposition. "