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Interview with Sergey Lavrov

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Published 19 December, 2008, 13:12

The current visit of Russian Navy warships to Cuba is the first in modern Russian history, says military diplomat Sergey Lavrov who was onboard the first Soviet military plane to land in Cuba in 1970.

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