DAMASCUS: Just a few weeks ago, economics student Firas Kiwani was planning to leave his home in the Syrian capital Damascus, convinced there was no future in his war-torn country.

But the launch last month of a Russian air campaign in support of the Syrian government has changed the 20-year-old’s mind.

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