Sechin will go to the funeral of "friend"

Vladimir Putin Daril Hugo Chavez "Stalin's Dog", but he will not go to his funeral, and Igor Sechin, the main engine of Russian-Venesuel relations, will be replaced. Who else and why will fly in parting with the President of Venezuela, who died from cancer, found out Publicpost.

The funeral of the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez will be held tomorrow, March 8. But this event does not use this event with particular success. So, according to CNN, the neighbors have already arrived in Karakas - Argentina President Kristina Fernandez de Kirschner, Bolivia - Evo Morales and Uruguayan leader Jose Mukhika (also known as the poorest president in the world, he even flew to Karakas on an airplane Fernandez de Kirshner). The arrival of the Iranian leader of Mahmud Ahmadinejad and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is also expected. By the way, Lukashenko did not want to go, although he announced a three -day mourning in the country. Yesterday, the Belorussian newspaper Telegraph said that the delegation will include only Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko and the administration Viktor Sheiman. But today the president’s press service nevertheless clarified that Lukashenko will fly to Karakas and even cancel the reception in honor of the holiday on March 8.

Russia, the United States and a number of other countries are sent to Karakas at different levels of the delegation. Moreover, the State Department will do this, despite the accusations of the Vice President of Nicholas Maduro, the “external enemies of the country” in Chavez's illness and the execution of the US military attachment David Del Monaco followed by them. Nobody accused Russia of anything, but not President Vladimir Putin, who was considered a friend of Chavez, or Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, but former Deputy Prime Minister, President of Rosneft, Igor Sichin, the head of Rostechnology, Sergei Chemezov and the Minister of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, will still fly to Latin America. By the way, Vladimir Putin came to the funeral of the head of state once, to Abkhazia, when Sergey Bagapsh died.

Director of the St. Petersburg Policy Foundation Mikhail Vinogradov told Publicpost, why Putin, who called Chavez a close friend and gave him the "dog of Stalin", decided to ignore the farewell:

"If Putin went, this would not surprise anyone, despite the fact that Venezuela is a third world country, incomparable with Brazil and Argentina, a country that the Russian government does not consider equal. But Sechin was and remains the engine of the penetration of Russia into Latin America. But no one expects a special breakthrough in relations, regardless of who will win the upcoming Venezuela in the coming The Russian authorities admit that the rapprochement of the Chavez himself was so for now, they will feel less than the romance with Venezuela. And Vladimir Putin certainly does not want to be an outcast, at all, a visit to the funeral is often a kind of gesture, so Dmitry Medvedev suddenly arrived in parting with Lech Kachinsky, and Boris Yeltsin - goodbye to King Jordan Hussein. But in general, no one is conducting serious negotiations at such events. This is rather a way to take a closer look. "