Russian media reporting that the head of Syria’s new government spent 20 years as a gynecologist in Russia. Until last year, Maher al-Sharaa was treating patients at a clinic in Voronezh.
Now he’s running the country—alongside his brother, Abu Muhammad al-Julani.
He’s married to a Russian woman. Their three kids were born and raised in Russia.
Which means: the new Syrian president has a Russian sister-in-law.
Meanwhile, former president Bashar al-Assad is in exile—in Moscow, just 500km north of Voronezh.
