The president of the Russian Duma, or chamber of deputies, Vyacheslav Volodin, arrived in Cuba on Saturday on a working visit after participating in the commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, state media reported.
Volodin landed in Havana with “a large delegation made up of other leaders of the State Duma and of the different committees of this legislative body,” according to the official newspaper. Workers.
The Duma speaker is expected to hold a meeting with his Cuban counterpart Esteban Lazo. Volodin’s work agenda on the island has not yet been disclosed, as he had already made a similar visit in April last year.
The high official’s stay in Cuba takes place just over a month after the arrival of a Russian Navy flotillawhich included a modern frigate and a nuclear-powered submarine.
In February, the foreign minister of the Eurasian country, Sergey Lavrovwas also on the island as part of a tour that took him to Venezuela and Brazil.
Cuba and Russia have boosted their bilateral relationship in recent years and the Asian country is now one of Cuba’s top ten trading partners, and both governments define their partnership as “strategic.”
In November 2022, Presidents Miguel Diaz-Canel and Vladimir Putin discussed in the Kremlin the state and prospects for the development of the Russian-Cuban strategic partnership in the political, economic, trade, cultural and humanitarian spheres, as well as the management of Cuba’s debt to Russia. A number of agreements were signed, including on oil supplies.
The Cuban leader expressed his country’s willingness to raise political dialogue and economic relations with Russia to a higher level.
