Moscow

Mysterious Russian numbers station

October 5, 2011

This month’s Wired magazine has a great article on the strange Russian numbers station, UVB-76: From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to [...]

Read the full article →

Our Little Castro in Belarus

July 30, 2010

Konstantin Sonin, a Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow, penned an article in the Moscow Times where he compares the economic and political consequences of Moscow’s support of local “tsars:” Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko. The political life of Cuban leader Fidel Castro goes on and on, thwarting all attempts to [...]

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

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.

Read the full article →

Cuban & Russian alliance grows

November 11, 2008

Cuban President Raul Castro will visit Russia next year, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, in a new sign that Moscow is reviving a Cold War-era trade and military alliance. “Next year we await … Raul Castro in our country and this will be yet another contribution to the development of ties,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [...]

Read the full article →

Russia, Cuba to implement joint space programs

September 22, 2008

Via RIA Novosti: There is every reason to say that Russia has started reasserting its global position. This includes big-time politics and efforts to expand scientific and military-technical cooperation with other countries, including Cuba, the Soviet Union’s main Latin American ally. It is hard to overestimate the importance of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries