Alexandra Arkhangelskaya

Nailya Almukhamedova

Ticiana Alvares

Pawan Anand

Ivan Angulo

Sergey Aleksashenko

Hüseyin Alptekin

Iskander Akylbaev

Saleh Muhammad Al-Khathlan

Hakan Altinay

Alexandra Arkhangelskaya

Russian Federation

Leading researcher of Higher School of Economics, as well as Institute for African Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences; Member of the Scientific Council of the National Committee for Research on BRICS; Executive Secretary of Russia – South Africa Dialogue Forum; Senior Advisor of Kreab Gavin Anderson Holds a PhD in International Relations, as well as a degree in International Law.

She lived and studied in South Africa, has developed projects in EU, Latin America and Southern Africa. Alexandra is fluent in English, Spanish, French, with intermediate Portuguese, and basic Afrikaans knowledge. Currently studying Chinese. Previous positions: CEO of BRICS – Business Research and International Consulting Solutions, Head of the Centre for Information and International Relations at the Institute for African Studies, RAS, Director and Advisor for Leroy Merlin Vostok and Grandline Group.

Research interests: Russian foreign policy, BRICS, SA foreign policy, emerging powers – Africa relations, South-South cooperation, International mediation.

Materials

Opinions

South Africa Today: Opportunities and Challenges for Foreign Policy

Despite political and accelerating socio-economic uncertainties, South Africa is still a destination of leadership and the driver of economic growth in the region and on the continent, while Africa is becoming even a more attractive zone of strategic interests for old and emerging power poles, writes Valdai Club expert Alexandra Arkhangelskaya.

27.12.2021

Reports

The Future Talks to the Past: BRICS Countries’ Strategies Towards the European Union

The European Union and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are formally similar interstate organisations according to the institutional theory of international relations. However, in reality they are antagonists, and their antagonism is conceptual — the EU and BRICS embody the old and the new in international politics and the methods of interstate institutional cooperation. Now that legitimate grounds have arisen to question the future of institutional forms of interstate cooperation in principle, the fates of the EU and BRICS are of equal interest for understanding the foundations on which these states can preserve such major achievements of the 20th century.

08.04.2021

Opinions

VUCA: A Gateway to Russia-Africa Cooperation and Development?

Russia's position in Africa is unique. It is founded on well-established historical ties and on the fact that Moscow owns resources and technologies that are now in demand on the Black Continent. However, these relations can become even more effective. According to the participant of the special session of the XVI Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “Africa: Prospects, Opportunities, Risks, Threats” Alexandra Arkhangelskaya, that requires more analysis and improving dialogue with the regional countries.