Inside Assad’s pathetic life in Putin’s ‘warlord retirement village’ with glam Brit wife a year after escape from Syria

VLADIMIR Putin has thrown a ring of steel around exiled dictator pal Bashar al-Assad as the tyrant marks his first anniversary hiding in Russia.  “Butcher” Assad, notorious for torturing his enemies, flew out of Syria a year ago on a Russian military plane at the eleventh hour – as he faced arrest and execution at…