Asylum for al-Assad is a message to Putin's 'friends': Analysis

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Bashar al-Assad is now in the Russian capital Moscow where he has been granted asylum by Russian authorities.

Russia was a staunch ally of Assad during Syria's civil war and intervened militarily to keep him in power.

Alexey Muraviev, a Russia specialist and associate professor of national security and strategic studies at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, says Putin reacts favourably to people who are loyal to him.

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