The three-month-old puppy was
given to Chavez by Igor Sechin, one of Putin's most trusted lieutenants and
chief executive of Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company.
"I passed a message from
Vladimir Vladimirovich -- it's a Black Russian Terrier. It's three months
old," said Sechin during a visit to the energy-rich Latin American nation.
"He liked it very
much," Sechin said in quotes published by mass-circulation Komsomolskaya
Pravda on Friday.
The Black Russian Terrier dog
is the result of a cross-breeding experiment conducted in the Soviet Union in
mid-50s-early 60s.
In the West, it is sometimes
referred to as Stalin's dog although the Soviet tyrant died before the animal
was bred.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov
told the Russian tabloid the puppy was born in Moscow.
Chavez said he would call his
new dog "el Ruso" (The Russian) and would give Putin a capybara, the
world's largest rodent living in South America, an AFP correspondent reported
from Caracas.
"He called him el Ruso,
(and) told me that the dog is very energetic and cheerful," Sechin said,
quoted by the Interfax news agency from Caracas.
Chavez' leftist regime is
Russia's chief ally in Latin America.
Russia supplies Venezuela with
military aircraft and other advanced weaponry and helps the South American
country with its plans for nuclear energy development.
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