In all, over 330 people including artists, writers, academics, political and social leaders have added here their names to the long list that features several Nobel laureates. More than 1,800 people have signed the missive.

Among Russian signers are poet Nicolay Zhdanov, violinist Igor Frolov; the co-president of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Cuba, Deputy Nikolai Leonor; the president of the Cuba-Russia Friendship Society Vadim Sayushev, and Doctor David Dzhojadze, who is a professor at the Philosophy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

A Cuban diplomatic source told Prensa Latina that the Russian letter was posted on the front page of the website of the Cuban embassy to Moscow on September 1, and since then hundreds of solidarity organizations and personalities from this nation have published it.

Since the first day, the Committee for the Release of the Cuban Five is providing information on the current state of the legal process, as well as Russian and Spanish booklets with their defense arguments at the Miami trial that has been nullified.

Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino, known as the Cuban Five in ongoing international campaigns for their release, are serving harsh sentences ranging from 15 years to double life imprisonment.

Arrested in 1998 in Miami, their real crime consisted of gathering information about terrorist plots by extreme Cuban-American organizations in Miami, Florida, in an effort to prevent Cubans and even US citizens from been targeted.