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		<title>Assad’s New Funding Model: Pressuring Friends to Pay Up</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Iyad Yousef]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Under pressure from Russia to repay a war debt of $3 billion, the Assad regime has resorted to an unconventional debt repayment method: pressuring regime-friendly business figures, who had profiteered from their relationship with the regime, to pay up represented in extorting his crony capitalists. Under the pretext of fighting corruption, the regime has put [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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