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Putin’s visit exemplifies ‘fluid exchange’ of contacts
The Cuban government on Thursday (July 10) officially announced the arrival Friday of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Havana. A front-page item in the daily Granma said that "His…
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Cuba, Russia in 3-way quest for offshore oil
During Vladimir Putin's visit to Cuba on Friday (July 11), the Cuban oil company CUPET and the Russian oil giants Rosneft and Zarubezhneft will sign an agreement to work together in the…
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Russian Duma OKs waiver of Cuban debt; Senate ratifies bill
It's official: Cuba no longer owes Russia the $35.2 billion in loans that it got from the Soviet Union. But passage of the bill did not go smoothly, as Liberal Democrats -- a minority…
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Chinese president to visit Cuba in mid-July
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the BRICS summit in Brazil this month and visit Cuba and two other Latin American countries, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday in…
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Putin will be in Cuba July 11, Kremlin confirms
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who authorized the waiver of Cuba's debt, will travel to South America next Friday (July 11) and will make a stopover in Havana, the Kremlin announced…
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Russia set to waive Cuba’s $35.2-billion debt
The Kremlin on Thursday (July 3) sent to the Russian parliament a bill to pardon Cuba's 35.2-billion-dollar debt to the Russian Federation during the years that Russia was part of the…
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Advertising in the shade
So long as the State does not take a position, a question mark hovers over the immediate future of advertising in Cuba since it is not contemplated among the procedures used in the…
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Google president: The ‘blockade’ makes no sense
Considering that Google is one of the "owners" of the business world, not only when you consider its income and assets, but its influence on the world economy and especially in U.S.…
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Phone company cries foul over ‘bypasses’
The confrontation began several weeks ago, in the form of "fraud" and illegalities committed by citizens to evade control of the phone service by the nation's only telecommunications…
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Google visits Havana
Several Google executives, led by its chairman Eric Schmidt, visited Havana on a task that so far can only be identified as one promoting the benefits of Internet. Progreso Weekly asks…
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