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COMMENTARY Russia's deeper presence in Cuba is a reminder that isolating the island risks leaving the U.S. on the sidelines when its communist comandantes are gone.

Cuba often calls Russia for rescue from its communist economic mess — but a new raft of deals just signed by the partners are potentially alarming for U.S. foreign policy in this hemisphere.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday condemned U.S. sanctions against Cuba, as he visited the island and met with top leaders during the last leg of a Latin American tour that took him to Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Russia and Venezuela have reviewed some of their hundreds of bilateral agreements covering the financial, energy, agricultural and several other sectors during discussions between their top diplomats.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived at the Brazilian capital as Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pushes a diplomatic approach for peace in Ukraine that has irked both Kyiv and the West.

COMMENTARY Conservative Brazilians feared Lula's new presidency — but it turns out he's much like their man, Jair Bolsonaro, when it comes to not defending democracy.

COMMENTARY Trivializing Russia's Ukraine invasion as a "territorial dispute" tells MAGA Latinos that Putin is a benign influence in the Americas, too.

The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to at least 35, an official said Monday, as rescuers continue searching for more victims.

Ukraine says Russia is using the cold as a weapon against Ukrainians, by targeting the country's ability to heat and power homes. Repair crews are struggling to restore power to damaged areas.

The U.S. basketball star was transferred to a prison colony in Mordovia — 300 miles southeast of Moscow — to begin serving out a nine-year sentence on drug charges.

The U.N.-brokered deal to ship Ukrainian grain exports was set to expire on Saturday and will now continue for at least another 120 days.

President Biden and other G-7 leaders gathered in Bali for an emergency meeting to discuss the explosions in Poland. "We're going to find out exactly what happened," he said.