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Few places conjure more foreboding than Chernobyl, the site of the deadly 1986 nuclear disaster.
Russia has an embassy in Havana and a consulate-general in Santiago de Cuba. Cuba has an embassy in Moscow and an honorary consulate in Saint Petersburg. Around 55,000 people of Russian descent live in Cuba. A 2016 survey showed that 67% of Cubans had a favorable view of Russia, with only 8% expressing an unfavorable view. [1]
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was captured [3] on 24 February 2022, the first day of the invasion, by the Russian Armed Forces, [4] who entered Ukrainian territory from neighbouring Belarus and seized the entire area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant by the end of that day.
Juragua Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant under construction in Cuba when a suspension of construction was announced in 1992 following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the termination of Soviet economic aid to Cuba. Russia and Cuba sought third-country financing to complete the plant in the mid-1990s but in 2000 the two ...
Oppenheimer: There are also domestic reasons why Cuba wanted Russian warships. | Opinion Russia’s warships in Cuba are more than a tit-for-tat for Biden’s support for Ukraine | Opinion Skip to ...
So, the calculus is clear: enhance relations with Russia to make the U.S. nervous and get the Russians to help in Cuba’s neverending dire economy. They need oil, food and necessities.
The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015) is a documentary about three women who decided to return to the exclusion zone after the disaster. In the documentary, the Babushkas show the polluted water, their food from radioactive gardens, and explain how they manage to survive in this exclusion zone despite the radioactive levels.
Described by locals as a "la espada de Rusia," meaning "the Russian sword," the Soviet-era Russian embassy resembles something of a sword stabbing Havana's Embassy Row.