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Russia Fires Arms Export Official after Israeli Complaints
[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon - Following Israeli complaints that state-of-the-art Russian arms were transferred to Hizballah, Russia has removed a senior official in charge of arms exports. The news was made public two weeks before Prime Minister Olmert is scheduled to visit Moscow, and is widely believed to be a gesture from the Kremlin before the visit. Soon after the war with Hizballah, a high-level Israeli delegation went to Moscow to discuss the arms issue, complaining that Iran and Syria passed Russian-made Fagot and Kornet anti-tank missiles on to Hizballah. When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Israel on September 7, he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was particularly angered by the Russian weaponry found in south Lebanon because it contravened promises he had given Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.