Russia sees Washington's sanctions against Cuban Communist Party First Secretary Raul Castro as a meaningless and despicable step, Foreign Ministry's Latin American Department Director Alexander Schetinin told Sputnik on Friday

Outgoing US National Security Adviser John Bolton is a very pleasant interlocutor and competent person, but Moscow did not agree with him on most issues because of his harsh style that relied on forceful methods, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday

Moscow is seriously concerned over Washington's attempts to customize the Latin American political landscape and use force to oust political forces that oppose US influence, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Suriname National Institute of Information in an interview

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Friday slammed US national security adviser John Bolton as the biggest threat to global security

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday that he had discussed earlier in the day with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez Parrilla, the situation in Venezuela and Washington's attempts to reformat Latin America in the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that, during the latest telephone talks, he had urged his US counterpart, Mike Pompeo, to refrain from reviving the Monroe Doctrine, adding that the intentions to do so were a manifestation of disrespect for Venezuela and other Latin American nations

The US approach toward dealing with the current political developments in Venezuela represents an attempt to revive the Monroe Doctrine, a policy penned in the 1820s that aimed to secure a completely democratic Western hemisphere through influence over Latin America