The State Duma ratified the Intergovernmental Agreement on Military Cooperation with the Republic of Nicaragua.
The document was signed on September 22, 2025. It is aimed at developing long-term military relations and includes cooperation between the two states in training military personnel, exchanging experience, as well as possible technical interaction.
“Nicaragua is the state with which we have been developing comprehensive relations at the level of the heads of state, within the parliamentary ties, at intergovernmental level,” emphasized the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin
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Vyacheslav Victorovich The Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation. Elected in single mandate constituency № 163 (Saratov constituency - Saratov Oblast) . “We need to strengthen our cooperation with our friends in Latin America. On our part, we should do everything possible to make our own contribution in the development of these relations,” he added.
He recalled that the State
Duma and the National Assembly of Nicaragua had signed an agreement on a high
level inter-parliamentary commission. “Ivan Ivanovich Melnikov
Ivan Ivanovich
coordinates its
work, it is very productive,” said Vyacheslav Volodin.