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Admittedly, the Government authorities, Inter-Governmental Commissions and the REC are primarily concerned with removing barriers for Russian exporters and opening up foreign markets for them in Africa. Reinforcement of positions of Russian exporters in Africa requires creation of certain conditions and the key task is penetration into the global market.
While Russia's interest in sub-Saharan Africa is nothing new, Russian authorities have realized that it's time to move back primarily to reclaim its economic footprints and to find old Soviet-era allies, but that step comes with new challenges, especially from other foreign players and the changing internal political and economic conditions in Africa.
While Russia's interest in sub-Saharan Africa is nothing new, Russian authorities have realized that it's time to move back primarily to reclaim its
Hear the stories of a Kyiv resident and two Seton Hall history professors - one who grew up in St. Petersburg, and one who teaches Russian and East European history.
Though Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms were praised in the West, the collapse of the Soviet Union schooled a generation of authoritarian rulers in the dangers of tolerating any signs of dissent or democratic yearnings.