Slutsky ruling out Moscow's support for any coup in Caracas

MOSCOW. April 30 (Interfax) - Leonid Slutsky, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia's State Duma, has said that Russia will never support a violent upheaval of the current Venezuelan government.

"Russia will never uphold a violent shift of power in the Bolivarian Republic. Only the Venezuelan people may elect the president of Venezuela," Slutsky told reporters on Tuesday.