OREANDA-NEWS  Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, congratulated Cuban statesman, politician and military leader Raul Castro on his 95th birthday.

"Dear Comrade Raul, dear friend, please accept my warmest congratulations on the occasion of your 95th birthday," reads Medvedev's telegram, the text of which is quoted by the secretariat of the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

The Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council noted that Castro has been carrying the banner of the revolutionary struggle for a just cause for many decades.