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Article: Hugo Chavez deepens petroleum and military ties with Russia.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- September 10, 2009
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Byline: Fred Weir Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Moscow -- Eight visits in eight years. Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has been here so often that the Moscow media calls him "Russia's comrade-in-arms-and-oil," a phrase that neatly summarizes the growing politicization of a relationship whose profitable core is trade in weapons and energy.
On this occasion, Mr. Chavez presented a special gift to his Russian hosts, by declaring at a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev that Venezuela will extend official recognition to the breakaway statelets of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, over whose survival Russia fought a brief but bloody war with ...