MOSCOW – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has tentative plans to visit Russian-annexed Crimea in April 2019 and is in talks about starting regular passenger flights between Syria and the Black Sea peninsula, Russian news agencies said on Oct. 16.
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Russian marines take part in the Navy Day celebrations in Sevastopol, Crimea, on July 29, 2018.