Most of the apartments are located in the City of Capitals, which is located in Moscow’s glittering skyscraper district. The twin-towered skyscraper, which was the tallest building in Europe until the unveiling of the London Shard skyscraper in 2012, is home to some of the richest Russian businessmen, members of the government, five-star hotels and multinational companies, writes the Daily Mail.
The stately building could now become home to Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma, sons Hafiz and Karim, aged 24 and 21, and daughter Zein, who is 22. Photos of apartments located in the complex represent not only luxurious equipment, but also a view of Moscow.
Assad’s palace is on fire, previously the Syrians looted it
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Wikileaks showed in 2012 that the family is used to living in luxury, when it published Asma Assad’s private correspondence. It follows that the woman spent 350,000 dollars (8.3 million crowns) on the equipment of the palace and 7,000 dollars (166,000 crowns) on shoes studded with crystals.
The family of the deposed dictator has strong ties to Moscow. Hafiz Asad is a doctoral student at Moscow State University. He defended his dissertation and became a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. The defense of the work was supposed to take place on November 29, during the offensive of the Syrian rebels on the second largest city of Syria, Aleppo. It is possible that Assad was on a secret visit to Moscow at the time. The Kremlin refused to comment on whether he or his wife had visited Russia.
Asma Assad, who is battling an aggressive form of leukemia, is widely believed to have arrived in Moscow with all the children days before her husband fled Syria. The secret tunnels under the residence of the Assad family, which were allegedly discovered after the rebels occupied the capital Damascus on Sunday, were to help them escape.
TASS: Asad and his family are in Moscow, they received asylum in Russia
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