Foreign Minister Lavrov has claimed that homemade sarin was used in a chemical attack in Aleppo on March 19, and that a similar but stronger concentration of sarin was used in the Aug. 21 attack in Damascus. Lavrov said that an “understanding” between Russia and the US has been reached on a draft UN resolution on Syria. The Supreme Court of Tatarstan sentenced Taufik Baibekov to nine and a half years in prison for planning terrorist attacks in the republic; he was arrested in August 2012.
