Centre for African Strategy in BRICS

Head of the Centre
ZELENOVA Daria Aleksandrovna, senior researcher, PhD in Political Sciences
RSCI AuthorID: 751806
ORCID: 0000-0002-5237-4413

    • History of Soviet foreign policy in Southern Africa
    • Social and political history of South Africa
    • Foreign Policy of Democratic South Africa
    • South Africa and BRICS, South Africa and SADC, South Africa and the AU


E-mail: d.zelenova@gmail.com

Research areas of the Centre:
- Assessing the benefits and risks associated with the joining of the new African BRICS member states;
- Analysing the contours of interaction between the new African member states in the context of the emerging polycentric world;
- Study of the prospects for further expansion of BRICS on the African continent, creation of a model of the BRICS expansion until 2030;
- Development of a strategy for Russia's interaction with the African BRICS member states based on the modelling results.

The Centre’s researchers:

SIDOROV Vasiliy Aleksandrovich, senior researcher, PhD in Economic Sciences
RSCI AuthorID: 821317
SPIN-code: 8499-3189
ORCID: 0000-0003-0725-6431

    • Economy and foreign economic relations of South Africa, Africa and BRICS countries


TURYANITSA Daria Andreevna, junior researcher
RSCI AuthorID: 1057472
ORCID: 0000-0003-1019-7823

    • Socio-political questions of Southern Africa;
    • BRICS cooperation with African countries;
    • Soviet Union/Russia's relations with African countries


ANDREEVA Tamara Alekseevna, junior researcher
RSCI AuthorID: 1193937
ORCID: 0009-0003-9195-3578

    • Economic and political trends in West Africa;
    • Integration processes in Africa;
    • Prospects of African expansion of BRICS.


GRISHENKIN Maksim Sergeevich, junior researcher
ORCID: 0009-0003-2470-6948

    • Historical features of Ethiopia's multilateral diplomacy;
    • Specifics of Ethiopia's foreign policy cooperation with BRICS partners;
    • Specifics of Ethiopia's bilateral cooperation from the perspective of socio-political challenges;
    • Media discourse of African countries from the perspective of interaction in BRICS.