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Cuba's foreign policy has been fluid throughout history depending on world events and other variables, including relations with the United States.Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner, Cuba became increasingly isolated in the late 1980s and early 1990s after the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, but Cuba opened up more with the rest of the world again ...
Cuba strongly supported Russia's position in the Russo-Georgian War. In the fall of 2008 Cuba and Russia increased joint cooperation with each other in the field of economics. Russian deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin visited Cuba several times in 2008 in order to increase economic and political ties. Russia was the first country to provide aid ...
Through its ties with Russia, Cuba was granted “observer status” in the Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Russia, Belarus and three other post-Soviet states in 2020, but little benefit ...
Simultaneously, relations between Cold War allies Russia and Cuba have markedly improved as the Communist-run country battles an economic crisis it charges is due mainly to U.S. sanctions.
The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement about Lavrov’s visit to Cuba that “key achievements” in economic cooperation between the two countries over the past year “will ...
A group of Russian Navy ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Cuba on Wednesday evening as part of “historically friendly relations” between the two countries.
Map indicating locations of Cuba and Soviet Union in the 1930s. Cuba in green, Soviet Union in orange. After the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cuba became increasingly dependent on Soviet markets and military aid and was an ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
The recent visits of high-profile Russian officials to Cuba and Venezuela, all in less than a week, have fueled scrutiny and speculation about Russia’s interests in the region amid the war it ...