Venezuela's Chavez to sign $2 bln military deals in Moscow

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will buy military equipment worth nearly $2 billion during a visit to Russia at the end of the month, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported Monday.
'Hugo Chavez will arrive in Moscow at the end of May to sign new Russian-Venezuelan agreements on military and technical cooperation,' said the paper.
Chavez and new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed in March, during a telephone conversation, to visit each other.
'The accords with Venezuela will obviously be the first big arms contracts signed under the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev,' the paper said, adding that his predecessor Vladimir Putin had paid special attention to military and technical cooperation in international relations.