Free Russian Buses for Supportive Nicaragua
The St. Petersburg Times
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Friday 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 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 were made at the Kurgan Bus Plant, and each seats 27 passengers. They will be used on routes connecting Managua with regional cities.
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