September 29, 2021 A collection of African masks as a gift to the Institute for African Studies from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation E.R. Malayan

On September 29, at the Academic Council of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation Eduard Rubenovich Malayan donated to the Institute his collection of masks, which he collected during his years of work on the African continent. They contain the history of the peoples of Africa from antiquity to the present day. The donor wished the research team further success in strengthening its leading position in Russian and world African studies.