By Vladimir Putin
On July 27–28, St Petersburg will host the second Russia-Africa Summit and Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum. Ahead of the summit, Russia's president penned an article outlining his vision on the prospects for cooperation between Russia and the African continent.
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By Richard Santos
In response to the Valdai Club report “Russia and Africa: An Audit of Relations” released in the run-up to the Club’s African Conference, Ricardo Santos from Mozambique discusses shortcomings in the interaction between Russia and the African countries and identifies ways to overc...
By Rhod Mackenzie
As Turkey intends to turn itself into a gas hub with the support of Russia, then Morocco invites Russia to join the project of creating a coal hub on its territory. In general, Africans want more business from Russia
“The volume of trade between Russia and Morocco is close to $...
By Oleg Barabanov
We see a real increase in global competition for Africa, a kind of ‘race of billions’ in cooperation programmes with it. This, by the way, gives the African countries themselves the opportunity to choose, writes Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.
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By Ma Jingjing
Japanese export controls on 23 crucial chip-manufacturing items took effect on Sunday. This comes as Japan has blindly followed Washington's lead in containing China. Chinese analysts said Japan's unreasonable move will make its chip industry face a Waterloo again, as Japanese chipm...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The II Russia-Africa Forum starts in St. Petersburg on Thursday. The arrival of the heads of many states of the continent is expected, real progress in the formation of a common agenda for economic and humanitarian cooperation between Russia and the countries of the continent.
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