Originally appeared at Izvestia. Translated by Julia Rakhmetova and Rhod Mackenzie
The author is a professor at the Moscow Higher School of Economics, one of Russia’s top universities
Talk of the validity of elections conducted by the Assad administration and prospects for a political process somehow left out the recently announced Plan B to be implemented if the political process reaches a deadlock. And how wrong that was.
Actually, American maneuvers around Plan A, i.e., a ceasefire and political solution, are becoming more obvious. Barack Obama is running out of time to declare himself a ‘peacemaker in Syria’. He needs a success before November and it doesn’t matter what happens after that.
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