July 28, 2023 Session The impact of new global challenges and the economics of sanctions on the media partnership between Russia and Africa: problems and solutions

July 28, 2023 Honorary President of the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Asia and Africa Today”, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexey Vasiliev spoke at the session “The Impact of New Global Challenges and the Economics of Sanctions on the Media Partnership between Russia and Africa: Problems and Solutions,” where in his speech he noted that the most successful cooperation with Africa in the information sphere is possible if our or the common media pays the main attention to specifically African affairs with an emphasis on the positive. Russian politics must be presented in the most balanced manner, calling on media consumers to draw their own conclusions. The creation of joint television centers with transmission not only in English, French, Portuguese, but also in widely spoken local languages - of course Arabic, but also Swahili, Hausa (Fulani), Afrikaans - can play a certain role. Also Alexey Vasiliev noted that it is necessary to renew TASS representative offices in most African countries, which would make it competitive in the world media on African topics. Naturally, such initiatives require additional funding.