Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) and Russian Premier Vladimir Putin walks on September 10, 2009 at Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, during their meeting. Chavez was to discuss major arms and energy agreements with the Kremlin after he kicked off his trip to Moscow with a trademark anti-US tirade. Chavez said his country would immediately recognise the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent.