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Argentina orders the deployment of at least two gendarmerie to the Argentine embassy in Venezuela, where allies of opposition leader María Corina Machado have taken refuge amid increased tensions between the two countries.
2024-03-27

Nicolás Maduro's government declares European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa a "persona non grata" and gives her 72 hours to leave the country following new sanctions by the EU against 19 Venezuelan officials.
2021-02-24

Venezuela Vice President Delcy Rodríguez announces that the country will receive shipments of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.
2020-10-2

The U.S. State Department adds Russian oil company Rosneft Trading S.A. to its financial blacklist for helping facilitate the sale of Venezuelan oil.
2020-02-18

Russia opens a helicopter training facility in Venezuela. Under the plans, Russian state-owned Rostec will train Venezuelan pilots to operate Mi-35M gunships and transport helicopters. The move comes after the White House warned Moscow against sending troops or military equipment to the country.
2019-04-2

Two Russian military planes, an Ilyushin Il-62 and an Antonov An-124, land at Simón Bolívar International Airport near Caracas, Venezuela, carrying senior Defence Ministry official Vasily Tonkoshkurov, Василий Петрович, a large amount of equipment and about 100 troops. Russia, which three months earlier held joint military exercises on Venezuelan soil, condemned other countries for backing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó against embattled President Nicolás Maduro.
2019-03-24

All editions of Wikipedia are blocked in Venezuela by state-owned CANTV amid an ongoing political crisis.
2019-01-12

Russia arrests Economic Development Minister Alexey Ulyukaev for allegedly seeking a bribe to approve the sale of 50 per cent of Bashneft to state-run oil producer Rosneft last month.
2016-11-15

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez makes his first speech since receiving treatment for cancer in Cuba.
2011-07-1

Colombia makes a formal diplomatic protest to Venezuela over the latter's alleged violation of Colombian airspace by a military helicopter.
2010-01-28