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Russia, Venezuela Launch Naval Exercises
Caracas :: Venezuela | 12 months ago
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Russia and Venezuela have begun a series of joint naval operations in the southern Caribbean Sea aimed at evaluating their nations' skills in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking. Military officials for both countries said the exercises,...
Tags: venezuela, russia, russian warships, warship, naval exercise, medvedev, Hugo Chávez, Russia-Venezuela, Anti-Chavez, Venezuelan
Russian leader Medvedev praises Fidel Castro
Moscow :: Russia | 12 months ago
Credibility Russia's president paid tribute to Fidel Castro Sunday after a meeting with the Cuban revolutionary icon. Dmitry Medvedev said his conversation with Castro Friday was "extremely interesting" and suggested the world should draw on the experience of such...
Tags: medvedev, russia, castro, russian warships, naval exercise, visit, Russian, Dmitry Medvedev, Fidel Castro, Latin America
Chavez, Medvedev tour Russian warships in Venezuela
Caracas :: Venezuela | about 1 year ago
Credibility Russian President Dmitry Medvedev toured a Russian warship visiting Venezuela's Caribbean on Thursday, a boost for President Hugo Chavez's mission to weaken U.S...Medvedev boarded Russia's anti-submarine destroyer, Admiral Chabanenko, along with Chavez,...
Tags: russia, medvedev, venezuela, visit, castro, russian warships, first, Russian, raul, Dmitry Medvedev
Venezuela's Chavez welcomes Russian warships
Russian warships sailed into port in Venezuela on Tuesday in a show of strength as Moscow seeks to counter U.S. influence in Latin America. Russia's first such deployment in the Caribbean since the Cold War is timed to coincide with President Dmitry Medvedev's...
Venezuelans vote on Chavez future
Caracas :: Venezuela | about 1 year ago
Credibility Polls have closed in Venezuela's state and municipal elections, seen as a test for Hugo Chavez, the president, against an energised opposition. With long queues witnessed in front of many polling stations on Sunday, initial estimates suggested that...
Tags: russian warships, russia, warship, Hugo Chávez, first, naval exercise, Mr Chavez, Mr. Chavez, caracas, Venezuelans
Russian leader Medvedev heading to Cuba, Venezuela
Caracas :: Venezuela | about 1 year ago
Credibility The U.S. has objected to Russia's greater links with the two countries that have antagonistic relations with Washington. Medvedev will visit Cuba on Nov. 27, the Kremlin press service said...The Soviet Union was a stalwart supporter of Cuban leader Fidel...
Tags: venezuela, russia, medvedev, visit, castro, Russian Orthodox Church, russian warships, naval exercise, Venezuelan, first
DEBKA: First Russian live missile fire air exercise since Soviet times
Maracaibo :: Venezuela | about 1 year ago
Credibility ot since 1984, just before the fall of the Soviet Union, has Russia ventured to launch dozens of nuclear bombers for an exercise in which Tu-95 Bear bombers will fire live cruise missiles. Exercise Stability 2008 will take place Oct.-6-12 over sub-Arctic...
Tags: russia, russian, warship, russian warships, Russian Navy
Russian navy ships to visit Libya
Moscow :: Russia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Russia's navy says its warships will visit Libya and other Mediterranean countries en route to Venezuela. A nuclear-powered missile cruiser and several accompanying ships will sail through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean on Sunday...Igor...
Tags: warship, russian warships, Mediterranean
Russia pledges closer ties with Venezuela
Moscow :: Russia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Chavez, known for his anti-US rhetoric, hosted a visit by Russian bomber planes to Venezuela this month and Russian warships will hold exercises there in November, the first such maneuvers in the Americas since the Cold War. The establishment of closer...
Tags: russia, venezuela, medvedev, russian warships, Russian, Venezuelan, Dmitry Medvedev, chávez, nuclear deterrent, president dmitry
Russia sends naval task force to Caribbean
Moscow :: Russia | about 1 year ago
Credibility The dispatch of the warships comes close on the heels of Moscow sending two of its heavy duty bombers to Venezuela last week. The missile cruiser has practically unlimited operational range and carries 20 SS-N-19 Shipwreck surface-to-surface missiles...
Tags: russia, venezuela, russian, russian warships, warship, Russian Navy, Venezuelan, medvedev, chávez, Caribbean
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