Cuban Ambassador to Russia Juan Valdes Figueroa (R) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L) stand next to the Russian edition of the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s two-volume memoirs during the book presentation in Moscow, on October 17, 2011.
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