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Russia’s Ministry of Defense has considered establishing bases in countries that once hosted Soviet bases, Deputy Defense Minister Nikolay Pankov said Friday in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament.
Asked, for example, whether Russian troops planned to return to Vietnam and Cuba, Pankov said: “We are dealing with that. We see the problem.”
The statement was made by the Deputy Defense Minister of Russia during the debate on the approval of the contract for the use of the Russian military base opened in Khmeimim, Syria. The document on the indefinite use of the base was signed on August 26, 2015 and submitted to the State Duma by President Vladimir Putin on August 9, 2016.
Sergey Chepa, deputy chairman of the Russian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (a representative of the Socialist United Russia party), said during the debate that establishing Russian military bases in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa is in Russia’s national interest.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu previously stated that Moscow intends to establish military bases in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia.
In the summer of 2014, President Putin stated that Russia had no plans to reopen the Lourdes base in Cuba.
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