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CARACAS, Friday October 03, 2008 | Update
Russia fulfills contract for delivery of 24 fighters to Venezuela
Politics
The Russian government fulfilled a contract for the supply
of 24 Su-24MK2 fighters to Venezuela, reported on Friday Alexei
Fiodorov, the president of Russian state company United Aerospace
Corporation.
"We have completed the provision of fighter jets to Venezuela,"
Fiodorov told reporters in reference to a contract signed
by Moscow and Caracas on July 2006, unofficially valued at
USD 1.5 billion, according to the Interfax agency.
Fiodorov said that another sales agreement for Su-30 fighter
jets to Malaysia, worth USD 920 million, was about to be fulfilled.
The Russian official said that through the end of the year,
the company will deliver to India the first of the 16 MiG-29MK
jets (14 fighter jets and two training jets).
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05:09 PM. Economy. If any country has cashed in on the Bolivarian revolution, that is Brazil, particularly the private companies of the southern neighbor. Over the past five years, it has been awarded contracts for works to be carried out in Venezuela for over USD 14 billion. This puts it as the first recipient of government-to-government contracts, that is, without bidding, since Hugo Chávez took office.
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