Latin America
The past has fled, what you expect is absent, but the present is yours proverb Arabic there is no doubt, that the Latin American continent is of great interest to Russia, more when you have opened the doors in some countries that have been identified with socialism, concrete case Venezuela has initiated new partnerships technical, commercial, military, leading to it that that other countries on the continent to see with interest venture into Russia and vice versa. Which for Russia has been written.
Latin America is a constructive natural partner. In addition, ascent to power in several countries of the continent of new leaders, his aspiration to consolidate the independent foreign policy course and the creation of a socially oriented market economy open up additional possibilities for the development of our relations, allow more fully reveal the potential of cooperation and to more effectively leverage the new formats of application joint efforts on the basis of the interests that coincide. We must not forget it says the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Serguei Lavrov, Russian communities – and in general in Latin America live about 200 or 250 thousand natives of Russia and the former USSR – there are practically in every country. Many of them have emerged in recent decades and meet our teachers and specialists who disclose their students manage them of Russia in the field of science and technology. Our compatriots are actively involved in the Russian activities of the associations and societies of friendship, centres of studies of language and culture and help organize exhibitions and tours of artistic communities. Rianovosti through slices tells us in this regard, that relations between Russia and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have acquired, in fact, in recent years, a powerful dynamism. The main cause lies in the objective coincidence of interests. The activation of the political, economic, commercial, scientific, humanitarian and cultural cooperation with the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean figure among the priorities of Russian foreign policy.