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.
A Texas A&M committee ruled the university’s firing of professor Melissa McCoul was unjustified after a video showed a student removed from class for objecting to a gender identity lesson....