The Kremlin’s Caribbean Gambit

On June 12, the Russian guided missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov and the Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine Kazan made a momentous arrival in Cuba’s capital, Havana. Accompanied by the tanker Akademik Pashin and the rescue tug Nikolay Chiker, they were met on the Malecón, Havana’s long esplanade along the coastline, by high-level Cuban officials and a large gathering of common Cubans who came to salute the Russian navy. 

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