African vector of Russian foreign policy. Maya Nikolskaya's interview with Irina Abramova

How are the countries of the African continent developing? Why is Africa always associated with problems, famine and wars in the Russian information field? Why should Russia strengthen its presence in the region and how to do it? Maya Nikolskaya, junior researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies at IMI MGIMO, discussed the current state of Russian-African relations and the prospects for the development of the continent with a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Irina Olegovna Abramova.