Syrian-Russian intermarriage

[cc3]

Many Syrian elites have FSUW wives. No wonder Putin is allied with Assad (along with wanting to keep his Russian Navy base in Tartus).

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/world/middleeast/for-russia-syrian-ties-complicated-by-marriage.html

[BorisS]

Many Syrian elites have FSUW wives. No wonder Putin is allied with Assad (along with wanting to keep his Russian Navy base in Tartus).

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/world/middleeast/for-russia-syrian-ties-complicated-by-marriage.html

[size=0px]Soviet women had their own reasons to pursue Syrians — nondrinkers who, thanks to the Baath Party’s ties to the Communists, traveled freely in and out of the Soviet Union. A new wave of marriages followed the Soviet collapse, as young women sought a way out of economic chaos.[/size]
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[/size][size=0px]Sounds like the same reasons they married Westerners....[/size][size=0px]