Bashar al-Assad is not the first ousted leader to find himself in Russia
“Verstka” counted at least six such cases On December 9, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Bashar al-Assad and his family flew to Moscow and received political asylum. The Syrian president is not the first world leader to be sheltered by the Russian authorities. In different years after the overthrow, the leaders of the GDR, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Afghanistan, expelled from their countries, came to Russia. “Layout” tells about them in more detail.