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Russia Needs To Go Beyond Signing Agreements With Sub-Saharan African Countries – OpEd

Russia plans to hold the second Russia-Africa summit in July 2023. Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, indicated in a message mid-June last year, a few months after starting the ‘special military operation’ in neighbouring Ukraine, that “in these difficult and crucial times the strategic partnership …

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How Sanctions Have Changed Russian Economic Policy

The Kremlin has been breaking a lot of records lately, and not in a good way. One dubious title is that of the most sanctioned country: since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, Russia has become subject to more than 13,000 restrictions. That’s more than Iran, Cuba, and North …

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How Russia Torpedoed Its Own Influence in Moldova

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned neighboring Moldova into a tinder box. Its border with Ukraine stretches for almost 1,000 kilometers, and Russian missiles have entered Moldovan airspace on more than one occasion. Moscow has threatened to prevent Moldova from becoming another “anti-Russia,” while making fearmongering accusations that the Ukrainian …

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