... 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... ... 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... ...
approved
applications for humanitarian exemptions, a host of problems arose—bank refusals, supplier delays, delays at customs, etc.
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Coronavirus Reveals...
... a loaded gun pointed directly at their head in an area of vital interest. But, this also highlights the crucial problem with their current strategy concerning the whole Ukrainian affair, which makes their case a lot weaker than it was concerning the Cuban affair, considering that the main accusation against Russia isn't backed up by robust evidence.
This is not to support the view that Russia isn't involved in any activity correlated with Ukrainian affairs, quite the contrary. After all, it would be inconceivable that they would disregard ...
The normalization of the US-Cuban relations is a step so long-awaited that only the most faithful and orthodox fanatics ... ... 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... ... Americans willing to visit Cuba made an immediate dramatic rise. There are hundreds and thousands American visitors exploring Cuba: you can see them everywhere now.
There is,...
... case in point was just getting it out of the boxes.”
Since then, there has been no new information about any high-profile contracts with Cuba, and according to
official statistics
, in 2013, Russia supplied weapons and ammunition worth $197.7 thousand to Havana.
China, like Russia, prefers to soft-pedal its military-technical cooperation with Cuba. Mentions of it in the media could harm trade.
China’s military continue to visit Cuba
and talk about cooperation in training.
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Col. Gen. Fang Fenghui, Chief of the General
Staff of the Chinese Army and Army Corps
Gen. Alvaro ...
... worries of Eastern Europeans.
Accordingly, the next year should provide an answer for the following question: Is fear of Russia and percieved threat in Europe sufficient for increasing defense capabilities of the European NATO members in the first ... ... 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 ...
... around Ukraine escalates, countries in the West, especially the United States, have increasingly used economic diplomacy against Russia, and threaten to expand the scale and reach of sanctions. Sanctions have also been a key mechanism by which America exerts ... ... pressure to force a country to reduce import restrictions is categorized as foreign economic policy. The American embargo against Cuba illustrates an unsuccessful attempt to use economic sanctions for political purposes. The introduction of countervailing ...
Although the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has authorized writing off 90% of Cuba’s $32 billion debt Kremlin policy toward the Castro regime is characterized by caution. Foreign direct investment by ... ... Brazilian air force has been airlifting the Cubans to Brazil as if it was the Berlin Airlift.
While this is happening, thousands of immigrants, from Haiti, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other nations both legal and undocumented, have been filtering into ...
