The Kremlin said on Monday that President Vladimir Putin had made the decision to grant asylum in Russia to Assad. "He is secured, and it shows that Russia acts as required in such an extraordinary situation," Ryabkov told NBC, according to a transcript on NBC's website.
Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen was convicted by the Supreme Court of Finland in a 3-2 ruling for a 2004 pamphlet calling homosexuality a developmental disorder....