Security & Strategic Review January 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BOLIVIA | Russian helicopter deal stalled. On 8 January the Russian ambassador to Bolivia, Leonid Golubev, publicly urged the government of Evo Morales to finalise the deal agreed in principle three years ago for the purchase of six MI-17v5 helicopters. This was interpreted as a reply to remarks made a fortnight earlier by Morales, to the effect that he was expecting 'concessionary' credit from Russia for this acquisition. Golubev told an interviewer from the newspaper El Deber, 'I always tell the Bolivian authorities that they must buy now, not tomorrow, because Russia has orders from other countries [and] the price always goes up, not down.'

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