Moscow's military is back--sort of.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russias-military-used-215-new-weapons-systems-syria-24283
With United Nations-sponsored talks to end the civil war getting nowhere, Russia staged its own. Neither has made much progress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/world/middleeast/syria-russia-sochi-talks.html
https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2018/01/30_a_11630875.shtml
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3534334
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/01/30/5a6dfa4b9a7947d762b633d6
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5A7095686F37F
http://www.ng.ru/courier/2018-01-29/9_7160_west.html
http://www.dsnews.ua/world/-kremlevskaya-doklad-ssha-pozvolyat-elitam-brosit-putina-29012018130000
https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2018/01/29_a_11628913.shtml
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2018/01/29/11629213.shtml