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Interesting video from the Abkhazian Network News Agency

Check out this video – its mostly combat footage with some commentary in Russian (which I will summarize below): There really is no point giving you a word for word translation, but a few comments are worth making: First, the Syrians are advancing, rather easily in fact.  During the two days of combat it took them to take the fortified position shown in the footage the Syrians only suffered one

UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi: Only two ways for Syria – political process or hell

UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi put it simply: there are only two ways for Syria – a political process or hell.  In other words, he agreed with the Russian position. As for the opposition, it immediately declared that a non-negotiable precondition for any negotiations must be the departure of Assad (making any thinking person wonder what there would be left to negotiate at this point). So we have the following

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