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AFTER the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) took power for a second time in 2007 and its leader, Daniel Ortega, again became president of Nicaragua, Russia's relations with that country have become closer and, moreover, acquired a new quality, developing into full-scale strategic partnership. Today, Nicaragua is Russia's main partner and ally in Central America. Russian presence in Nicaragua takes a diversity of forms - political contacts, economic relations, including trade and investment, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation. There are numerous reasons for this, primarily the two nations' desire to build equal, mutually respectful, and mutually beneficial cooperation in bilateral and multilateral formats, their deep involvement in regional political and economic processes, and their active roles in the world arena, where they hold identical or similar views on practically all key issues.
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