Lourdes

Reviving an old Cuban love affair

January 17, 2010

Richard Lourie, author of “The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin,” wrote an op-ed in The Moscow Times with the following observation about Cuba-Russia relations and the geo-strategic importance of the island in world power politics: Cuba needs money, spare parts for Soviet military equipment and a sense of alliance with a heavyweight player. During President Dmitry Medvedev’s [...]

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Russia & Cuba renew military assistance

September 18, 2009

Stratfor assesses Russian assistance in modernizing Cuba’s aging military equipment and its presence in the Western hemisphere.

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Russian top military commander visits island

September 15, 2009

Via Ria Novosti: The chief of the Russian General Staff has arrived in Cuba for a working visit at the invitation of the Cuban military leadership.Gen. Nikolai Makarov, who landed in Havana late on Monday, will meet with his Cuban counterpart Gen. Alvaro Lopez Miera and other top brass, and “visit a number of military [...]

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Military leadership counterparts profiled

March 19, 2009

A recent flurry of activities from the Russian Federation, its armed forces and Cuba, i.e. Russian strategic bombers possibly using Cuban airfields and the possible reactivation of the Lourdes SIGINT facility, leads to a further inquiry on the Cuban military leadership

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Reactivation of Lourdes SIGINT facility?

March 17, 2009

View Larger Map La Nueva Cuba’s lead story today informs of reports the newspaper received from within the island that “Russian personnel has been in Cuba for several months working on modernizing SIGINT operations in the old Lourdes surveillance and monitoring facility south of Havana,” (complex is center right in Google Map above) which was [...]

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Putin’s navy, Ch

September 26, 2008

by Ray Walser and Mackenzie Eaglen | The Heritage Foundation Almost half a century after the Cuban missile crisis, the Russian navy is coming to the Americas. While the mood in Washington is far from panicked, neither is it mirthful. There is a sense of discomfort and dissatisfaction with the voyage of the Russian flotilla [...]

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