Top Russian officials met with their Venezuelan counterparts last week during a 3-day diplomatic visit that saw the two allied nations review a series of bilateral accords dealing with energy, finance, defense, housing and commerce.
Venezuela and Russia continued to deepen bilateral relations with the signing of new accords in energy, housing and agriculture yesterday, while Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin highlighted that this year commercial exchange between the two countries has seen a ten-fold increase.
The governments of Venezuela and Russia signed bilateral accords worth $8 billion US dollars yesterday, in the areas of development, technical-military cooperation, energy, and agriculture.
On Wednesday Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the strengthening of bi-lateral relations between Venezuela and Russia after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister, Sergery Lavrov.
According to Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, the economic and political strategic alliances built and strengthened by Venezuela over the last 12 years will help the country to face the blows of the world economic crisis from a stronger position.
By Eva Golinger - Postcards from the Revolution, Dec 3rd 2010
The first batch of recently released secret and confidencial US State Department documents obtained by Wikileaks include over a dozen dispatches from the US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, evidencing espionage against the Chavez administration, use of opposition media and politicians as informants and insulting remarks about the country.
In his quest for a world free of "American hegemony" Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president, has been touring eastern Europe and the Middle East, signing energy deals with Russia (including an agreement for Venezuela's first nuclear power plant), visiting Iran’s capital for the ninth time and offering to supply Belarus with oil for the "next 200 years".
[Video] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was in Moscow for talks on cooperation between Russia and Venezuela, gave this exclusive live interview to RT, where he discusses everything from to ideology to internationalism, to his own political role.
[Video] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was in Moscow for talks on cooperation between Russia and Venezuela, gave this exclusive live interview to RT, where he discusses everything from to ideology to internationalism, to his own political role.
