December 9, 2020 at the award ceremony at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation three researchers of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) were presented state awards.

By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 10, 2020, for her great contribution to the development of science and many years of fruitful activity, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, II degree, Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics Abramova Irina Olegovna.

Honorary acknowledgments on behalf of V.V. Putin for merits in scientific activity and many years of conscientious work were announced to the Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics. Fituni Leonid Leonidovich and senior researcher at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. Alyoshin Kirill Andreevich.

We sincerely congratulate our colleagues on these high state awards!