MOSCOW, July 16 (UPI) -- Russia will reopen an electronic eavesdropping post in Cuba closed since 2001, Russian officials said Wednesday.
The agreement to reopen the facility in Lourdes, near Havana, was made last week by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Cuban leader Raul Castro when Putin visited Havana. It came in exchange for Russia's forgiveness of $32 billion, or 90 percent, of Cuba's Soviet-era debt, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported.