 I think Russia's main objective is to essentially be able to present itself later as a kind of power broker, if you like, or a peace broker. So Russia at the same time is essentially backing or prosecuting war there. We'll later on be able to help negotiate the peace and then to help to decide which figures should be in any transitional government for example. I mean the aim is essentially to bolster Assad's government to avoid regime change of the type that Russia saw in Libya and which was very much not to its liking. So but in the longer term not necessarily to keep Assad in place but the idea being that Russia would have a say in what happens. I think the conflict in Syria plays into a narrative that's been developing over several years now which is the narrative of Russia versus the West, mainly versus the US and Russia becoming a great power once more. And so I think in a weird kind of way people are prepared to make some sacrifices for that. The people who are not prepared to accept that economic hardship if you like are the ones who are leaving the country. But there were some surveys carried out by Levada recently which showed that Russians are generally quite supportive of policy in Ukraine even though at the beginning they were not so supportive or were kind of uninterested. And I think the same pattern might happen again in Syria. That people are not necessarily fervently patriotic about it to the extent that they would like to see Russian boots on the ground there, certainly not. But at the same time they might see it through the prism of kind of Russia versus the West. And obviously if you look at the sanctions that's generally the trend that one sees whenever sanctions are imposed. This is what happened in many other countries as well where sanctions have been imposed but you get that rally round the flag effect. So economic deprivation and so on isn't necessarily also seen as being a product of their own government's policy but a product actually of the global community or whoever it is that's imposed the sanctions on the population rather than their own government.