Moscow Times, Russia
Russia has settled Nicaragua's $3.4 billion debt under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program and been repaid only about 1 percent of it, the head of the Finance Ministry's debt department said Monday.
Nicaragua became a HIPC beneficiary in 1999.
"Since then, Nicaragua has paid $38 million of the debt," Sergei Kolotukhin told reporters.
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