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    RUSSIAN GENERAL KILLED IN SYRIA, REBEL GROUP SAYS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    August 8, 2012 - 11:28 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - A Syrian rebel group said on Wednesday, August
    8 it had killed a Russian general working as an adviser to Syria's
    ministry of defense in an operation in the western Ghouta region on
    the outskirts of the capital Damascus, Reuters reported.

    A video statement from a group calling itself the "Hawks Special
    Operations Battalion...a division of the Military Leadership of
    Damascus City and Province", gave the name of the general as Vladimir
    Petrovich Kochyev. The video, sent to Reuters, showed what the rebels
    said was a copy of his ID, as issued by the Syrian military.

    The same group claimed responsibility for the assassination of four
    of President Bashar al-Assad's top lieutenants in Damascus last month.

    There was no immediate comment from the Russian authorities.

    Russia, which has an estimated several hundred military personnel in
    Syria, is one of the few countries still backing Assad diplomatically
    since a popular uprising against his rule erupted 17 months ago.

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