Moscow feels rattled that the normalization between the United States and Cuba is gaining traction. A columnist writing for the new agency Sputnik virtually warns Havana that the leopard cannot change its spots and America does not intend to "remove its boot off the Cuban nation's neck" (Sputnik).


Another commentary featured by a Kremlin-funded media organ on US President Barack Obama's trip to Cuba rues that Havana may be bidding farewell to its revolutionary ideals by letting in the "cigar chomping, Bermuda shorts wearing, and Hamburger-eating' Yankee. Read more