'The timing of attacks on Assad came in light of a global economic crisis left behind by the measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide'.
Syrian regime leader Bashar al Assad came under intense criticism from a Russian news outlet last week. Accusing Assad of the inept handling of the country's affairs and deep-rooted culture of corruption in government ranks, the Russian Federal News Agency, which is owned by one of President Vladmir Putin's closest aides, Yevgeny Prigozhin, carried a report which was both shrill in its tone and sharp and unforgiving in its observation of Assad.
The report also accused the Khamis government of deliberately lying to the people about oil and gas supplies in order to justify the long hours of power outages, and accused the regime’s prime minister of accumulating money from the exportation of electricity to Lebanon since 2019 while sending the black money to the West.
The timing of attacks on Assad came in light of a global economic crisis left behind by the measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic worldwide and very close to the US Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act’s application, which places unprecedented sanctions on the Assad regime and its supporters, especially Russia and Iran.
Nasr al Yousef, who is a Russian journalist and expert, cited two main reasons to explain Russian media’s attack on the regime. Syrian media justifed the situation by saying that because of the economic situation in Russia after the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia applied complete closure and Syrians were suffering because of it. Therefore, the people started looking for other sources of income.
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