While Assad lives under guard between a Moscow City penthouse and a villa outside the capital, Syria’s new rulers are trying his regime in absentia; Russia is courting Damascus, and Putin appears to have little use for the deposed dictator
Far from power since the fall of his regime, Bashar al-Assad leads an isolated life in Moscow, protected by the Russian authorities and practically disappeared from public life. The former Syrian dictator divides his time between a luxury cover in Moscow City, a high-standard skyscraper complex in the Russian capital, and a mansion in the Rublyovka region, reduced by the country's political and economic elite, as reported by the ynet. All financ…