Russia-Cuba: Longstanding Win-Win Cooperation

1 Moscow, Feb 11. – The interest of Russia in a friendly country like Cuba, and vice versa, entails a longstanding win-win economic, cultural and sports cooperation with ever increasing prospects. As the electoral campaign for presidential elections of March 4 is at its peak and makes headlines in every newspaper, the Rassiskaya Gazeta journal devoted a full page to

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Solidarity with Cuban 5 in South Africa, Russia

1 Havana, Nov 9. -The cause of freedom for five Cubans serving terms in U.S. prisons has found new advocates in places as disparate as South Africa and Russia.In South Africa, the Association of Friendship with Cuba and the South African Communist Party reaffirmed on Wednesday in Bloemfontein their rejection of the U.S.-imposed blockade on the island and demanded the

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Russia: Free the Cuban Five

1 Moscow, Jun 8 (Prensa Latina) Russian organizations of solidarity with Cuba demanded today to the American president Barack Obama the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists and also the end of the American embargo, said today some diplomatic sources. A letter delivered in the US Embassy in this city, repeated the demand to free the Cuban five, which are

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Cuban Technical University Strengthens Co-op with Russia

1 Havana, Feb 26. – The Havana-based Jose Antonio Echeverria Polytechnic University (CUJAE) is strengthening collaboration with Russia to use that countryâ�Ös experience in training Cuban professionals. We are trying to use the influence of former Soviet, now Russian teaching received by our staff, Director of International Relations of the said polytechnic facility Jose Maria Ameneiros told Prensa Latina. In

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Farewell to Bobby Farrell, The Voice of Boney M

2 Amsterdam, Dec 31. -Bobby Farrell, the voice of the legendary disco group Boney M, died suddenly Thursday at the age of 61 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he had just performed. The news was confirmed early this morning by John Seine, his representative, who did not specify the cause of death. In a concert on Wednesday, Farrell performed a

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Cuban Residents in Russia Demands End of US Blockade

18 Moscow, Dec 20. -The Association of Cuban residents in Russia demanded on Sunday the unconditional lifting of the U.S. blockade on the Caribbean island and the release of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the USA. A statement from the association, approved during a political-cultural meeting, spoke out for eliminating the so-called European Common Position. The organization calls

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Dominguez to Lead Cuban Chess Team

2 Havana, Sep 8. -Grandmaster (GM) Leinier Dominguez will lead the Cuban chess team to the Olympics in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, from September 21 to October 11, advanced the Cuban sport daily Jit. Dominguez, the best Latin American in the World List of the International Chess Federation, ranks 29th with 2.716 Elo points. The Cuban male team, whose Elo average

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Brazilian President to Reform World Economic Relations

1 Moscow, May 14. -Russia and Brazil will never cease to seek solutions to social problems, said today the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who advocated for a reform in international economic relations. The South American head of state said his country supports Russia's entry to the WTO as a step towards further development of multipolarity. Lula da

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Russia Providing Full Support to Poland on Plane Crash

3 Moscow, Apr 12. -Russian and Polish investigators began on Monday the hard task of identifying the remains of nearly 100 people killed in a weekend plane crash in which Poland''s president Lech Kaczynski and many other top government officials perished. Kaczynski's plane crashed in thick fog near Smolensk airport in western Russia on Saturday, reportedly after the pilot ignored

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