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Russian Prime Minister Begins Cuba Visit

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - February 21, 2013

Above: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (UN Photo/Mark Garten)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will be in Cuba Thursday for a “working visit.”

Medvedev’s visit will include meetings with Cuban leader Raul Castro, according to a communique from Cuba’s government information agency.

The Prime Minister comes to Cuba after a trip to Brazil and talks with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

Medvedev has been Russia’s Prime Minister since 2012, after completing a four-year term as president that began in 2008.

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