MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. Russia will take into account actions by Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (banned in Russia) before striking it from the list of terrorist organizations, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"One should proceed from concrete actions, deeds, concrete manifestations of someone's activity. How can one speak in theory, in general? These are quite specific things, which will imply a specific assessment of them," she said at a news conference, when asked about the chance of removing HTS from the list of terrorist organizations.

According to Zakharova, Russia maintains communication with various political figures and forces in Syria.

"As for concrete steps, we now need to wait first of all for the institutionalization of power in Damascus, because this process has only now been started," the spokeswoman said.

Syria’s armed opposition units started a large-scale offensive on government troops at the end of November. On December 8, they entered Damascus while government troops withdrew from the city. Bashar Assad resigned as president and fled the country. A Kremlin source told TASS that Assad and his family are in Moscow and have been granted asylum in Russia out of humanitarian reasons.