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Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega last week accepted
delivery of 130 buses donated by the Russian
government to help ease the country's public
transportation problems.
"Brotherly Russia helped us, without any
political or economic conditions," Ortega
said at the ceremony in the country's
capital, Managua, Itar-Tass reported.
In September, Nicaragua became the only
country besides Russia to recognize the
independence of the breakaway Georgian
republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia
after they declared their independence.
"The Russian and Nicaraguan people are
connected by the long, strong bonds of
friendship, and the buses are just one more
vivid confirmation of this," said Russian
Consul Igor Kondrashev, also at the
ceremony.
The buses, provided by GAZ Group, Oleg
Deripaska's troubled automaker, were made at
the Kurgan Bus Plant, and each seats 27
passengers. They will be used on suburban
routes connecting Managua with regional
cities.
After the ceremony, Ortega and Kondrashev
went on a tour of Managua in one of the
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