Russian President Medvedev meets with Nicaraguan President Ortega in Moscow

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega speaks during a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin in Moscow on December 18, 2008. Nicaragua was a close ally of Moscow in the 1980s under Daniel Ortega, a leftist who returned to power in 2006. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)