{"id":251883,"date":"2022-04-22T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=251883"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:25:12","slug":"russian-payment-cards-to-be-available-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/russian-payment-cards-to-be-available-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian payment cards to be available in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MIR payment cards, from <\/span>Russia<\/span><\/a>, will soon be available in Cuba, according to official sources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olga Skorobogatova, first vice president of the Central Bank of that Eurasian nation, affirmed that her country \u201cis working today on the launch\u201d on the island of this mechanism, belonging to the National Payment Card System (NSPK).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are several countries that would like to cooperate with us. For example, Cuba is one of the latest projects we are currently working on. In other words, our citizens will be able to use the MIR card in Cuba,\u201d Skorobogatova explained at a working meeting of the Russian State Duma, <\/span>\u00a0according to a recent report<\/span><\/a> by the Prensa Latina (PL) news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the source, Moscow is also advancing negotiations with other countries for the use of the MIR card. The official did not specify which countries she was referring to, although she said that these are nations to which \u201cRussian tourists travel a lot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, this payment mechanism is accepted in a group of countries with good relations with Russia, such as Vietnam, Turkey, Belarus, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, to which Cuba would join.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trade between Cuba and Russia grows in 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n