The United States embargo against Cuba is an economic, commercial and financial instrument enacted on February 7, 1962 after Cuba expropriated the properties of U.S. citizens and corporations.

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After a workout in cooperation with the London Club of commercial creditors, the dollar-dominated debt was "by far the best-performing instrument in Russia last year, " Cooper says.

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