The first one hundred evacuees are expected to leave, on Tuesday.
It is the latest sign that Russia sees little hope for it's ally.
Moscow has been the main reason that no international effort was ever effective in intervening, in the civil war.
Anything that the international community attempted was vetoed by Russia, at the UN.
In December, Russian officials finally unofficially admitted that Assad could lose his fight, to stay in power.
Assad has been struggling to retain power, since March of 2011.
First it was against peaceful protests, then civil unrest, then riots, until it became open civil war.
An estimated sixty-two thousand people have been killed during the twenty-two month long conflict.
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