“If something goes wrong in Syria, many countries of the region will feel a negative impact. We can’t support isolation because of the lesson we drew from Libya.”

"We won’t let Syria become 2nd Libya"(November 2011) http://rt.com/politics/syria-libya-russian-stance-285/

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