The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has just announced the relaunch of the project to modernize the Cuban railroad infrastructure. RZD International LLC and the Union of Railways of Cuba originally signed a contract for reconstruction and... More »
The Russian company Sinara Transport Machines Holding has sent seven more TGM-8KM locomotives to Cuba. The train engines are a part of a 2016 deal between Havana and Moscow. These seven new locomotives arrived in Cuba last Tuesday. The rail vehicles, at the co... More »
The Construction and Assembly Business Group (CUBACONS) will implement three new foreign investment projects in the construction sector. The first project is with a Russian company for the transportation and lifting of large loads in industrial works. The othe... More »
Recently, the Russian government made a donation of $5 million to Cuba for school meals through the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The donation was endorsed with the participation of the Russian Ambassador Andrei A. Guskov, Paolo Mattei, the represen... More »
The visit of Vice Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas to Russia reflects the importance for Cuba to develop relations with nations that have a genuine interest in collaboration. The meetings which took place included discussions of Cuba’s status as an observer of ... More »
Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas is on an intensive working visit to the Russian Federation. His agenda includes meetings between his Russian counterparts, Russian business and the Intergovernmental Commission for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Techn... More »
The Russian coronavirus vaccine known as the Sputnik V will start mass production in other countries and one of those nations is Cuba, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev said today. According to the website, the Sputnik vaccine, named af... More »
Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a telephone call on April 13 to discuss joint efforts to combat the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The foreign ministers held a detailed exchange of views on th... More »
In the context of humanity’s hard struggle against the coronavirus pandemic, I would like to draw attention to the manifestation of contrasting qualities by some members of the international community. Last Wednesday, the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, Ge... More »
A new grain unloader made possible by the combined efforts of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), the governments of Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began operations on Thursday at the José Antonio Echeverría port in the municipality of Regl... More »
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted President Miguel Diaz-Canel‘s invitation to visit Cuba. The invitation to Putin was extended by Diaz-Canel during his visit to the Russian Federation last October. During the October visit, the two presidents focus... More »
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, begins an official tour of Latin America today with stops in Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela. While in Cuba, Minister Lavrov’s will pay tribute to Cuba’s national hero, José Martí, and former President Fidel Castro, at the... More »
