Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will visit Brazil and Cuba this Wednesday. During his visit to Brazil on February 20-21, Medvedev will hold talks with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and co-chair with Vice-President Michel Temer the fifth meeting of the Russian-Brazilian high-level bilateral committee on cooperation. Both are expected to sign several intergovernmental agreements and contracts in such areas as metallurgy, medicine and hi-tech industry. Russia is expected to participate in a tender for the construction of four nuclear power plants in Brazil and expand military-technical cooperation with the Latin American country.

On February 21, Medvedev will arrive in Cuba for a two-day working visit and hold talks with Chairman of the Cuban State Council and the Council of Ministers Raul Castro.