SLP, Mexico.- The Russian company Rusmarket LLC announced that it will open a small store in Old Havana called “Florida”, as revealed this Thursday in a note from the Sputnik agency.
He establishment It will sell cider, beer, frozen trout, canned fish and pork, soft drinks, biscuits, sugar-free chocolates, foods “for healthy diets”, purees and cereals for babies, natural cow’s milk and juices, among other products.
Alena Varkentin, director of that distribution company, explained to Sputnik that in January of this year they signed contracts with entities marketing products from that Eurasian nation.
The first shipment of merchandise will arrive in Cuba in December, as part of the agreement with Miratog, one of the main meat producers in Russia.
Rusmarket will not only have a “little store” in the capital, since in June or July it will open a shopping center in the space previously occupied by the Yumurí store, located on Reina and Belascoaín.
The market will be made up of departments of clothing, shoes, food, makeup, dishes and appliances, a games and “fun” space for children, cinema, cafes, candy stores and a restaurant.
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The alliance between Cuba and Russia has been strengthened even more. The Kremlin has opted for Latin America, where it has also found the support of rulers such as Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela) and Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua).
During the 40th edition of the Havana International Fair (FIHAV-2024), Moscow’s ambassador in Havana, Víctor V. Koronelli, expressed that the Russian presence in that space showed “the high level of relations (…) in the economic and commercial sphere.
“The investors “Russians have increasingly more interest in the development of mutually beneficial joint projects that at the same time seek to respond to the priorities of the largest of the Antilles,” he said. Sputnik.
Within the framework of FIHAV, the signing of agreements between companies in the health sector, pharmaceutical industry, information and communications was foreseen.
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In this regard, Luis Alberto Mora Rodríguez, general director of the Construction Computing and Automation Company (Aicros), told the Russian media that together with the Russian company Voltah they created one dedicated to the implementation of digital technologies.
Lev Lapin, from Voltah, announced that they propose to distribute Russian-Cuban software to various Latin American markets.
