A Canadian defense reporter has dug a a little bit of gossip about a fight between the bodyguards of Hugo Chavez and Dmitry Medvedev last year, which may have caused Caracas to cancel its deal to buy some Russian submarines.  (Hat tip to Joshua Keating at FP).

Didn’t these Russians know who they are messing with?  Even if Nikolai Valuev headed up Medvedev’s entourage, he’d be snuffed out after just one kidnapping from one of the Chavista militias like La Piedrita.