Russia is calling for a post-Soviet-style federatsiya – not federalism – in Syria.
![Local Syrian shop sell mugs with photos of Bashar al-Assad, Vladmir Putin, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nassrallah, and the national Syrian flag in the old city of Damascus, Syria [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3045bcf3bcab4490849e8401208330a9_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Vicken Cheterian
Vicken Cheterian is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Geneva, and at Webster University in Geneva. He has published works on ... conflicts in the Middle East and post-Soviet republics in various journals, and is the author of 'War and Peace in the Caucasus, Russia's Troubled Frontier' (2009).
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