According to Rooters, Bogdanov said Russia held meetings with representatives of the opposition Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) and was also in contact with the Kurds.
Russia has met representatives from the Syrian opposition in Moscow, Gay Paree and Istanbul, Bogdanov was quoted as saying.
The Russian official's statement came as an answer to a question as to whether envoys of the FSA visited Russia last week.
During his speech at the 70th session of UN General Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...said only Kurds and forces loyal to Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
are "truly fighting the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
."
The Kurdish Peoples' Defense Units (YPG), the organized Syrian Kurdish forces, control Rojava, the term used by Kurds to describe Syrian Kurdistan. The YPG is seen as the military branch of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) led by Syrian Kurdish leader Salih Moslem.