"Putin's another Big Game: why the Kremlin "went for a walk" in Africa"
“Don’t go, children, to walk in Africa!” - having written his fairy tale "Barmaley" back in 1925, Korney Chukovsky "cast a spell" on the thinking of our political class for almost a century. In the era of Khrushchev and Brezhnev, the Soviet Union actively "went for a walk" in Africa. However, the results of that “long walk” turned out to be so ambiguous that even against the backdrop of a break with the West, the Black Continent remains “invisible” to a significant part of the Russian elite. True, this does not apply to the "captain's bridge" of the Russian authorities: Vladimir Putin has been actively working in the African direction for quite a long time. But these presidential maneuvers are perceived as something peripheral - they say, for the sake of order! These countries, too, must not be completely forgotten! But isn't such a point of view a manifestation of political myopia? Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Irina Abramova is convinced that she is. From the point of view of this authoritative expert, Russia's survival as a great power largely depends on the effectiveness of Moscow's African policy.
