... and Dimitri Chernyshenko, the vice president of the Government of the Russian Federation, met on Friday at the National Hotel [3].
The president described the visit to the island by the also co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Commission during the Cuba-Russia Business Economic Forum, whose closing ceremony took place in the 1930 Hall of the iconic Havana hotel, as a significant and important visit that marks a milestone in relations between the two countries.
After the Forum, which saw the signing of ...
... Cuba have many common values when it comes to their picture of the world and their place in the current balance of power. These common values, all the more, rest on a solid historical basis, which we, with all pragmatism, should not ignore. The Cuban-Russian partnership is reinforced by the position of Havana during the voting of the UN General Assembly on issues related to the Ukrainian problem. But this is also not an expression of loyal feelings towards Moscow. The anti-Americanism of Cuban foreign ...
... state of war. The strict oil embargo has resulted in a shortage of petrol, which is needed by both the military and medics. Cuba has faced fuel shortages as a result of a U.S.-led embargo for years now. Venezuela and a number of other countries have ... ... of the COVID-19 pandemic, but doctors and the population will likewise be hit hard. The most stable situation right now is in Russia, where the safety margin is greater, and sanctions are not yet that extensive. The principal danger lies in the sanctions ...
... snarky move, recently, the incoming right wing regime in Brazil ex-invited Venezuela's current president Maduro from the January 1st innaguration of president-elect Bolsonaro in Brasilia. Also ex-invited were another member of the Bolivarian Alliance, Cuba. For reasons not made clear the leaders of Bolivia and Nicaragua were not ex-invited. When the news about the "withdrawn" invitations broke, the Bolsonaro team said that Maduro and the ex-invited Bolivarian Alliance nations were never invited ...
... moved for training and exercises.”
As observed by American historian Stephen Cohen of Princeton University, this is the first time in history that the United States have deployed their heavy weapons and troops so close to the line of defense of Russia.
The similarities with the Cuban Missile Crisis are striking, with one faction putting their military machine in the backyard of other one. The justification for this move is the alleged role of the Russian Federation in the Ukrainian crisis.
But the dissimilarities are interesting ...
... share a radical sentiment towards both Castro and President Obama), expecting lifting of the blockade-embargo tomorrow or even the day after is off base.
In this regard, speculations about the impact of the normalization of the US-Cuba relations on the Cuba-Russia relations are only partly justified.
Moreover, prior to the historic meeting of Barack Obama and Raul Castro at the Summit of the Americas in Panama, the Cuban leader had attended the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States ...
... Cuban Armed Forces entered the 21st century with the help of its own military industry, Chinese “logistics items” and North Korean upgrades.
Press service of the Russian Defense Ministry
Visit of Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu
to Cuba
Where was Russia? Russia voluntarily “disappeared” as far as Cuba was concerned in 1991. The relationship, including in military-technical cooperation, has recently begun to recover. In 2006, a Rosoboronexport delegation visited Cuba and signed a “number ...
... could merely remain a favorable opportunity for NATO bureaucrats to pretend the alliance still matters, whereby the renewed Russian military doctrine is not that bad. NATO is the number one threat. Anyone surprised?
2. Shall the Islamic State survive?... ... developing world to cut their emissions? The logic of relative gains dictates the opposite.
5. And finally: Will the U.S. and Cuba become friends?
The recent initiative of President Obama to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba and to open an embassy ...
... private interests of its citizens. In this regard, society in different countries differs greatly, and a prime example of this is Cuba and Iran, which for decades lived under sanctions.
The relative decline in the efficiency of trade and economic sanctions ... ... benefits, while there are few examples to the contrary. Ukraine, which refused a giant package of economic assistance offered by Russia for political reasons, is one of them.
The status quo is becoming less acceptable to emerging powers, and they (the BRICS,...
... leaders included Mario Firmenich, who was from a good family and led the large Montonero organization. Firmenich escaped to Cuba during the “Dirty War” and was friendly with Fidel and Raul Castro. He later returned to Argentina as a hero ... ... of his mother and father, and “El Pocho” Peron and resemble popular wooden painted folkloric dolls one finds in Russia.
If the guns, natural gas and heavy equipment business goes well between Russia and Argentina maybe the "Cristinushkas" ...
