Russia

Kalashnikov ammunition production in Cuba

November 30, 2011

RIA Novosti reports today: Russia and Cuba are planning to sign a contract on building an assembly line  for production of ammunition for Kalashnikov assault rifles, Kommersant business daily reported on Wednesday. According to a source in the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, cited by Kommersant, an assembly line for 7.62-mm rounds used in Kalashnikov [...]

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Russian, Cuban military prosecutors meet

November 25, 2011

The Cuban Military Prosecuting Office (Fiscalía Militar de Cuba) and Office of Attorney General of the Russian Federation met in Havana and exchanged experiences in applying the law, announced Russian Attorney General Sergei Fridinski as reported in RIA Novosti. According to Fridinski, the Russian and Cuban sides exchanged experiences about issues concerning criminal and civil [...]

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Russia’s destabilizing foreign policy in Latin America

September 20, 2011

Stephen Blank (professor of national security affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College) in an opinion piece entitled “Russia’s Second Wind in Latin America,” which was published last month, assesses Russia’s foreign policy in Latin America focused on profit, influence, destabilization and anti-Americanism: Russian policy is not driven by Latin America’s views, but by [...]

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Gaddafi could make his way to Cuba

August 22, 2011

Via The Telegraph: Among the countries that are said to have expressed a willingness to receive Gaddafi are Venezuela, Cuba and Russia, another government source claimed. “Pretoria is playing a very delicate and useful role to ensure he leaves the country through a safe passage, avoid a bloodbath for Tripoli, and end up in a [...]

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Forgotten martyrs

August 20, 2011

The Wall Street Journal on the heroic forgotten martyrs who died in their struggle against Soviet rule for a free Russia: Today, Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov are all but forgotten—obscured by deep disillusionment with the political and economic chaos that for many Russians defined Mr. Yeltsin’s attempt at democratic rule in the [...]

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Former senior US military officers urge Cuba policy change

September 15, 2010

Former senior officers of the United States Armed Forces have sent a letter to President Obama urging him “to repeal the full travel ban on all Americans and engage the Cuban government in dialogue on key bi-lateral security issues,” reports The Havana Note (a blog by the public policy institute and think tank, New America Foundation.) General James T. [...]

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