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A Russian vessel laden with 730,000 barrels of oil has docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas, the first time in three months that an oil tanker reached the island. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump allowed the shipment to proceed despite its ongoing energy blockade.

A U.S. official says a Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine.

For Argentines, it was just the city’s annual Gay Pride celebration. But for a Russian gay couple joining this month’s festivities, they were scenes from another planet.

Experts say the case offers a window into how the Russian government tries to influence American elections and promote its own geopolitical agenda.

Two Russian naval ships have docked in the Venezuelan port of La Guaira during exercises in the Atlantic Ocean that Moscow says are to “show the flag” in remote, important regions.

A fleet of Russian warships have reached Cuban waters ahead of planned military exercises in the Caribbean.

Four Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Havana next week, Cuban officials said, citing “historically friendly relations” between both nations and as tensions escalate over Western military support for Ukraine in its war with Russia.

In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum in Moscow may be accomplishing much the same thing all by himself.

COMMENTARY South Florida Latinos embrace Donald Trump — even as he undermines the cause of democracy in their homelands by embracing Vladimir Putin.

Erich de la Fuente, a Cuban-American professor of international relations at FIU and an expert on Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, discussed his view on Cuba's alleged human trafficking bust.

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry announced it had in fact disrupted a scheme in Russia to recruit Cuban citizens to fight in Ukraine and denied supporting Russia's invasion.

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.