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Weekly Report - 19 February 2015 (WR-15-07)
NICARAGUA: Strengthening ties with Moscow
Last week Russia’s defence minister, General Sergei Shoigu, became the latest high-level government official from Moscow to visit Nicaragua to reaffirm bilateral relations with the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega. While the visit was just the latest sign of the growing bilateral ties, a process which has gathered pace since the FSLN administration took office for a second term in 2007, the prospect of closer military cooperation is seen with apprehension by some of Nicaragua’s neighbours such as Colombia.
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