How Bashar Assad will pay for the shelter provided by Vladimir Putin - the media

Kolumnist Mark Galeotti believes that the disgraced Syrian tyrant will live in the colors, an elite enclave of Russian riches near Moscow. Since the Soviet times, party figures and selected representatives of the loyal cultural elite settled here. He has now become a home for Nuvorish and overthrown dictators and their families. First, it is a family of a fallen Serbian president and a military criminal Slobodan Miloshevich.

There are at least three former presidents: Askar Aquaev from Kyrgyzstan (overthrown as a result of the "Tulip Revolution" 2005), Aslan Abashidze from the Autonomous Autonomous Republic of Georgia (in absentia convicted of terrorism and murder in his native country) and former President of Ukraine. 2014 Dignity Revolution. Bashar and ASMA al-Assad can be the latest recharge in the Collection. The real estate objects are huge, where the former heads of state live, are huge.

From the rumors, Viktor Yanukovych shares his time between a 52 million dollars in Barvis and a house in the Rostov region. The village has high -quality restaurants and retail stores: from the Dream House shopping center to Luxury Village. However, Bashar Assad's family will have to pay for it.

The US State Department has estimated Assad's private wealth at about $ 2 billion scattered around the world in offshore accounts and in false corporations, although it is unclear to what part of these funds they can still access. They will have to pay for property and other benefits of luxurious life in exile, not least for private protection and devoted servants. Most likely, they will be attached to the FSB staff. But the journalist believes that paying Bashar Assad will not only be money.

It can become a "Kremlin's paw". Bashar Assad is offended both on social networks in Russia and the propaganda media, believing that it was it that itself caused the collapse of his regime. In the Russian Federation, he was accused of not being able to use the window of opportunity provided by Russian intervention in 2015, and missed a chance to conclude a peace agreement with at least a part of the rebels, or to consolidate their army when they began their march on Aleppo.

Assad will have to put up if he wants to maintain his freedom. Although it is unlikely that he-or his 23-year-old son Hafz, who is prepared as a hereditary prince-will ever return to Syria, he remains a potential coin. Vladimir Putin is unlikely to give it to the Syrians, not to mention the tribunal for war crimes. In many ways, asylum was the latest means of Moscow's social contract with its dictators' clients: if everything else does not help, you will receive asylum here.