Hosting dozens of African Leaders today and such she for the 1st ever russia africa summit chief of aims to jumpstart with the continent 3 decades after the fall of the soviet union then major player in africa 54 delegates including heads of state and government are expected to attend the 2 day meeting with trade and investment high on the agenda. Now russia has big plans in africa particularly in Mineral Resources like in the republic of congo where although multinational lukoil is involved in a Natural Gas Development project in sudan and the Central African republic a close ally of president putin has secured mining on instances for gold in guinea a russian aluminum producer is doing on back side iraq that contains high levels of aluminum and in zimbabwe russia wants to get into platinum mining by a Company Called afro met while until now russia has seen relatively muted trade with african countries exports and imports to the entire continent were valued at only around 20000000000 d