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A Panda and a Bear in the Caribbean

... Havana amounts to about $1.8 billion and is expected to increase by 25% in 2015. Russia’s was just $185.1 million in 2013. China is interested in cooperation, including military cooperation, with Cuba because of the construction of a canal in Nicaragua, while Russia has no such plans in the region yet. Nevertheless, in 2014 the Russian government took action – 90% of debt to the USSR ($32 billion) was cancelled. What can the Russian government expect after such a gesture? Perhaps it will somehow retain ...

30.03.2015

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Russia and Nicaragua: Together Again?

... new actors emerging close to U.S. borders. And the assertively advancing Russia appears to be among such countries. From Russia with Love Dominated by the "paternalist Soviet-Sandinista model" over the past several decades, relations between Russia and Nicaragua currently rest on a sense of mutual pragmatism without any ideological overtones. The 1990s, disastrous for the bilateral dialogue, were followed by the 2002 Treaty on Basic Bilateral Relations and the complete write-off of Soviet-era Nicaraguan ...

13.08.2014

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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)