In this handout photo distributed by Crimean government's press office, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, receives a small sculpture representing Russian servicemen, who were in Crimea during preparations for a referendum on the self-determination of the peninsula, during his meeting with the head of the Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov, second left, in Damscus, Syria, October 16, 2018. Editorial use only, no archive, no commercial use.
