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Putin Voices Support for Venezuelan Leader Visiting Russia 

By Vladimir Isachenkov

"Once people realize Maduro can't deliver on what he promised, they may lose interest in supporting him," said AS/COA'S Eric Farnsworth in AP, referring to Venezuela's President. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered firm support Wednesday for Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, who is visiting Moscow to shore up political and economic assistance even as his country has been struggling to pay billions of dollars owed to Russia.

Maduro has become increasingly isolated in the world under growing sanctions led by the U.S. and the European Union which accuse him of undermining democratic institutions to hold onto power, while overseeing an economic and political crisis worse than the Great Depression.(...)

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