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Rasa - The Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that Moscow has managed to break the chain of color revolutions in the Middle East.
RNA - Shoigu announced that Russia's year-and-a-half counterterrorist campaign in Syria helped solve the geopolitical task of disrupting the chain of revolutions in the region, Sputnik reported.
"The deployment of our group in the Syrian Arab Republic helped solve the geopolitical task of breaking the chain of 'color revolutions' replicated in the Middle East and Africa," he added.
Moscow has been conducting a counter-terrorist campaign in Syria since September 30, 2015, at President Bashar al-Assad's request.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in December that the Syrian government and armed opposition groups had reached an agreement on a nationwide ceasefire in Syria and on readiness to start peace talks.
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