A Book About Chavez: The Russian Perspective http://www.tiwy.com/news.phtml?id=191

Russia's Molodaya Gvardiya Publishers which has offered the readership the biographies of V. Putin, M. Thatcher, and F. Castro recently made available “Hugo Chavez, the Lonely Revolutionary”, the story of Venezuela's controversial leader and another contemporary icon. For years, the career of the author, Konstantin Sapozhnikov – better known to the public as Nil Nikandrov, the journalist whose writings include “Grigulevich. The Lucky Spy” and “Ivan Solonevich. A Monarchist with Populist Views” -

had, like those of the people portrayed, been linked to Latin America. Sapozhnikov spent over a decade in Venezuela, where he worked in the 1980ies, the years when awareness of Chavez's revolutionary plans was limited to a handful of trustees, and in 2002-2008, the epoch marked with the rise of Chavez's socialist project. 

A complete collection of books dedicated to Chavez would count hundreds of volumes. The popularity of the defiant Venezuelan leader reached unprecedented proportions when he slammed the US as an empire posing a threat to the entire humanity and even projected the collapse of American statehood in the XXI century. The uncompromising verbal exchanges between Chavez and figures like G. Bush and C. Rice will hardly ever be forgotten. The media went out of the way to slap on Chavez the reputation of an unpolished populist, deliberately overlooking the fact that on every occasion the verbal offensives were launched by Washington, and Chavez simply picked up the challenges.

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