IS RUSSIA RETURNING TO AFRICA?
E. N. KORENDYASOV PhD in Economics Institute of Africa, Russian Academy of Sciences Keywords: Russia, Africa, cooperation, investment, foreign trade, business, loans, natural resources The African vector is gaining an increasingly significant place in Russia's foreign policy strategy. It is known that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the "troubled times" of the 1990s caused significant damage to Russia's position and prestige in Africa. On the continent, 9 embassies, 4 consulates, most cultural centers, and trade missions were closed. The African air lines were abolished. Moscow has lost important tools for exerting influence and creating new forms of cooperation. In the eyes of the Moscow political establishment and the business community, the prevailing view is that Africa is a continent stuck in pre-industrial stages of development, a continent of insurmountable poverty, endless wars and epidemics, surviving only thanks to international aid. Meanwhile, there was and still is another Africa-Africa of rapid economic growth (5% or more per year for the last 20 years), a major player in the natural and labor markets, a key source of global demand growth, and a lucrative area of investment operations. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, rising economies loudly declared themselves and their ambitions. They put forward and began to promote a program for the formation of a world order based on fair consideration of the interests of all countries and all regions. The most important point of the new players ' program was the requirement to build a multipolar, polycentric system of international relations, a new financial and economic architecture. Under the banner of this program, a kind of coalition of Asian, African and Latin American states is emerging, the prototype of which can be seen in the BRICS association (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), based on the principles of multipolarity, openness, non-alignment, and solidarity for development. Rus ... Read more
____________________

Эта публикация была размещена на Либмонстре в другой стране и показалась интересной редакторам.

Полная версия: https://libmonster.com/m/articles/view/IS-RUSSIA-RETURNING-TO-AFRICA
Точикистон Онлайн · 312 days ago 0 325
Professional Authors' Comments:
Order by: 
Per page: 
 
  • There are no comments yet
Library guests comments




Actions
Rate
0 votes
Publisher
Точикистон Онлайн
Душанбе, Tajikistan
03.12.2023 (312 days ago)
Link
Permanent link to this publication:

https://library.tj/blogs/entry/IS-RUSSIA-RETURNING-TO-AFRICA


© library.tj
 
Library Partners

LIBRARY.TJ - Digital Library of Tajikistan

Create your author's collection of articles, books, author's works, biographies, photographic documents, files. Save forever your author's legacy in digital form.
Click here to register as an author.
IS RUSSIA RETURNING TO AFRICA?
 

Contacts
Chat for Authors: TJ LIVE: We are in social networks:

About · News · For Advertisers

Digital Library of Tajikistan ® All rights reserved.
2019-2024, LIBRARY.TJ is a part of Libmonster, international library network (open map)
Keeping the heritage of Tajikistan


LIBMONSTER NETWORK ONE WORLD - ONE LIBRARY

US-Great Britain Sweden Serbia
Russia Belarus Ukraine Kazakhstan Moldova Tajikistan Estonia Russia-2 Belarus-2

Create and store your author's collection at Libmonster: articles, books, studies. Libmonster will spread your heritage all over the world (through a network of branches, partner libraries, search engines, social networks). You will be able to share a link to your profile with colleagues, students, readers and other interested parties, in order to acquaint them with your copyright heritage. After registration at your disposal - more than 100 tools for creating your own author's collection. It is free: it was, it is and always will be.

Download app for Android