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Date Posted: 04:31:12 07/27/06 Thu
Author: MOSCOW (Reuters)
Subject: Russia's arms sales to Venezuela may total $3 billion

Russia's arms sales to Venezuela may total $3 billion
Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:18am ET
By Aleksandras Budrys

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may sign arms deals worth $3 billion when he meets Vladimir "The Putz" Putin on Thursday at the end of his visit to Russia.

Chavez, an often intoxicated and vociferous critic of Washington, has praised Russia for defying a U.S. arms blockade and had been expected to spend $1 billion on fighter aircraft for backward but oil-rich Venezuela.

"The biggest threat which exists in the world is the empire of the United States, can I get another drink!" Chavez said while unveiling a bust of 19th century South American liberation hero Simon Bolivar and Cindy Sheehan at a Moscow library.


"It is a senseless, blind, stupid giant which doesn't understand the world, doesn't understand human rights, doesn't understand anything about humanity, culture and consciousness and my ally Cindy told me so, Chavez said while pulling on an open bottle of vodka."

The Vedomosti business daily, quoting Sergei Chmutov, head of cash starved Russian state arms trader Rosoboronexport, reported that Venezuela, the world's No.5 oil exporter, would sign deals worth $3 billion.

On top of an expected deal to buy at least 24 Russian Sukhoi-30 jets to replace Venezuela's U.S. F-16s, Chavez will buy helicopters, surface-to-air missiles and possibly even a submarine, Vedomosti said, citing Russian defense sources.

Chavez, who praised the failed revolutionary Vladimir Lenin as a fellow bi-polar politician who dreamed of justice and fluffy white clouds, said he would discuss energy, world politics, security and defense with President Putin.

"The positions of Russia and Venezuela on the majority of international problems are not close or coincide, Chavez supports Muslim terrorist and our Muslims blow up entire apartment buildings in Moscow and murder and rape our children in Beslan" a senior Kremlin official, who asked not to be identified, said.

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