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FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, a Russian Yak-130 training jet is seen at MAKS-2009 (the International Aviation and Space Show) in Zhukovsky, Russia. Business daily Kommersant... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, a Russian Yak-130 training jet is seen at MAKS-2009 (the International Aviation and Space Show) in Zhukovsky, Russia. Business daily Kommersant... (Associated Press) 
  
 Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria, a newspaper reported Monday, in apparent support for President Bashar Assad and open defiance of international condemnation of his regime's bloody crackdown. 
  
 The respected business daily Kommersant, citing an unidentified source close to Russia's Rosoboronexport state arms trader, said the $550-million deal envisions the delivery of 36 Yak-130 aircraft. A spokesman for Rosoboronexport refused to comment on the report. 
  
 If confirmed, the deal would cement Russian opposition to international efforts to put pressure on Assad's regime over its attempts to snuff out the country's uprising. The U.N. says more than 5,400 people have died over 10 months. The report of the sale comes the same day that Human Rights Watch called Russia's backing of the Syrian regime "immoral." 
  
 The Yak-130 is a twin-engined combat trainer jet that can also be used to attack ground targets. The Russian air force has recently placed an order for 55 such jets. 
  
 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said last week that Moscow doesn't consider it necessary to offer an explanation or excuses over suspicions that a Russian ship had delivered munitions to Syria despite an EU arms embargo. 
  
 Russia was acting in full respect of international law and wouldn't be guided by unilateral sanctions imposed by other nations, he said. 
  
 Lavrov also accused the West of turning a blind eye to attacks by opposition militants and supplies of weapons to the Syrian opposition from abroad and warned that Russia will block any attempt by the West to secure United Nations support for the use of force against Syria. 
  
 Russia has been a strong ally of Syria since Soviet times when the country was led by the president's father Hafez Assad. It has supplied Syria with aircraft, missiles, tanks and other modern weapons. 
  
 Igor Korotchenko, head of the Center of Analysis of the Global Arms trade, an independent think-tank, said the jet deal apparently reflected Moscow's belief that Assad would stay at the helm. 
  
 "With this contract, Russia is expressing confidence that President Assad would manage to retain control of the situation, because such deals aren't signed with a government whose hold on power raises doubts," Korotchenko was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying. "It's another gesture by Moscow underlining its confidence that Damascus will remain its strategic partner and ally in the Middle East." 
  
 Another Moscow-based military analyst, Ruslan Pukhov, said, however, that Russia might be too optimistic about Assad's prospects. 
  
 "This contract carries a very high degree of risk," Pukhov told Kommersant. "Assad's regime may fall and that would lead to financial losses for Russia and also hurt its image." 
  
 Human Rights Watch warned Russia that by supporting Assad it is repeating the mistakes of some Western governments during the Arab Spring, saying they were too slow to recognize the popular desire for democratic change in places like Egypt and Bahrain. 
  
 "Armed elements shooting at government soldiers is materially different from government representatives shooting deliberately at unarmend civilians," Carroll Bogert, the group's deputy executive director, said at a news conference in Moscow that followed the release of HRW's annual report. 
  
 She added that the overwhelming number of victims in Syria is on the side of the demonstrators. 
  
 "The continued support of this regime is immoral and not permissible," Bogert said. "The West has already made serious mistakes with the support of Arab regimes. Russia's repetition of those mistakes will lead to tragic consequences." 
  
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 Sofia Javed in Moscow contributed to this report. ||||| New York senators introduce bill to crack down on Syria Hold Syria accountable for human rights abuses, say Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand 
  
 New York Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer are pushing the Syrian Human Rights Accountability Act, which would bar Bashar Assad's regime from doing business with the United States. 
  
 Syria would be slapped with sanctions for its bloody crackdown on dissidents under a new bill being introduced by New York’s senators. 
  
 Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are pushing the Syrian Human Rights Accountability Act, which would bar officials in President Bashar Assad’s regime implicated in human rights abuses from traveling to or doing business with the United States and ban companies from selling weapons or sensitive technology to the Syrian government. 
  
 “Syria continues to show it has no desire to curb the bloody crackdown that has become synonymous with Assad’s regime,” Schumer said. “We must do everything that we can to make it clear to Assad that his time is up.” 
  
 Gillibrand called the bill, which will be introduced this week, “an important step to end the bloodshed. 
  
 “The longer President Assad holds on to power, the more tenuous security becomes for the entire region,” she said. 
  
 The Obama administration has said it would consider closing the embassy if the situation worsens. |||||
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Russia is so unconcerned with the international outcry against Syria that it has reached a deal to sell Bashar al-Assad's regime three dozen Yak-130 fighter jets, a Syrian business newspaper reported today. The twin-engined jet is capable of attacking ground targets, the AP reports. Experts say the contract, which is reportedly worth $550 million, is a sign of Russia's confidence that Assad will remain in power. The sale comes despite an EU weapons embargo against Syria, which Russia has said it won't cooperate with. The US, meanwhile, may soon crackdown on Assad even further. New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have introduced legislation that would bar anyone in Assad's regime who is suspected of human rights abuses from doing business with the US, as well as prevent US companies from selling weapons or technology to Syria, the New York Daily News reports.