The Russian Defense Ministry is investigating the possibility of returning to Cuba and Vietnam, Sputnik news agency quoted Russia's State Secretary and Deputy Defense Minister Nikolay Pankov as saying on Friday.

"We are engaged in this work," Pankov said in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma. 

Cuba hosted a Russian Foreign Intelligence Service facility until 2002, while the Cam Ranh Naval Base in southern Vietnam housed the Russian Navy until the same year.

Source: MENA