The other day l heard Sergei Lavrov explain Moscow’s backing for Bashar al-Assad’s murderous repression in Syria. Russia’s foreign minister, I admit, did not express it quite like that. A former career diplomat, Mr Lavrov is a clever man. He deployed all manner of casuistry to explain that, contrary to vicious western propaganda, Russia was acting in an entirely even-handed way. This was a journey back to the cold war.
前几天，我听到俄罗斯外长谢尔盖•拉夫罗夫(Sergei Lavrov)解释俄罗斯对巴沙尔•阿萨德(Bashar al-Assad)在叙利亚的残暴镇压的支持。我承认，他的原话与此稍有不同。拉夫罗夫是职业外交官出身，他是一个聪明的人。他以各种形式的诡辩解释道，与恶毒的西方宣传相反，俄罗斯的做法完全是不偏不倚的。这是一条重回冷战的道路。
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