Despite Everything: How and Why Russia Remains an Actor in the Horn of Africa
Image credit/license The interest of major state actors in the Horn of Africa (HoA) and the Red Sea is evident in their basing strategies in the area. Djibouti is the…
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Russia’s African Toolkit: Digital Influence and Entrepreneurs of Influence
(Orbis) Today, Russian influence on the African continent is still anecdotic compared to the People’s Republic of China, the United States, and former colonial powers, such as France. Yet, Moscow…
Russia’s Hardest Working Oligarch Takes Talents to Africa
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In September 2019, Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev sat down for an interview with the Russian news outlet RBC and announced the launch of the International Agency…
Marten: Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa seems to be cultivating personal relationships with leaders in a neocolonial model
(Washington Post) Facebook announced Wednesday that it had removed three networks of accounts it says are associated with Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Kremlin-linked businessman U.S. authorities charged with interfering in the 2016…
Russ-Afrique? Russia, France, and the Central African Republic
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The French government has been taking a balanced and often supportive diplomatic and economic approach to Russia in recent years, so Moscow should logically be trying…