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Riot police were attacked with bricks and fireworks last year, despite the restrictions, and a female police officer was injured when the window of her vehicle was shattered.

Movies that were originally planned solely for movie theaters were pushed onto streaming or VOD — sometimes in tandem with their eventual theatrical release, sometimes instead of — to accommodate government restrictions and low theater turnout.

In each case, when it was shown the dangers had been overestimated, he then led the effort to relax federal restrictions.

One area where that anxiety is likely to turn into action: restrictions on food advertising aimed at children —a familiar battleground for Big Food.

The new authorities swiftly loosened Assad-era restrictions, deluging the market with cheaper imports and lifting a moratorium that made dealing with dollars a criminal offense.