About 80 Russian citizens crossed the Syrian border into Lebanon, boarded planes and flew to Moscow

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Russians Fleeing Syria Cross Into Lebanon: A Russian diplomat told the Interfax news service that around 100 Rus... http://nyti.ms/VPIIDV 

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Russians Fleeing Syria Cross Into Lebanon

A Russian diplomat told the Interfax news service that around 100 Russians were leaving Syria as the government activates plans to remove its citizens from the conflict zone.

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8:34 PM - 22 Jan 13 · Details

Lucie Parsaghian/European Pressphoto Agency

Russian nationals who were evacuated from Damascus at the Masnaa border with Lebanon on Tuesday.

By ELLEN BARRY and HANIA MOURTADA

Published: January 22, 2013

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MOSCOW — About 80 Russian citizens crossed the Syrian border into Lebanon, boarded government-chartered planes and flew to Moscow on Tuesday, a small-scale evacuation that may signal thedwindling Russian hopes that President Bashar al-Assad will regain control of the country. The move came as a United Nations’ humanitarian official emerged after a rare mission through the conflict zone to express shock at the scale of devastation