Australian newspaper The National has a summary translation of a column published in Al Hayat:

Russia’s less-than-enthusiastic stance on the Arab Spring, and its high tolerance for repressive Arab regimes, raise many questions about Moscow’s real interests in the region, wrote Abdullah Iskandar, managing editor of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat, in a column yesterday.

But that is not all, he went on. Russia’s patience with the now-fugitive Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and the embattled Syrian president Bashar Al Assad has nurtured these leaders’ illusions that Moscow has got their back.