Valdai Club

From power generation and agriculture to infrastructure development, Africa is a continent of immense potential for external economic engagement. Now, the very character of Russia’s trade and investment on the continent is undergoing change as African economies mature and develop. Denis Degterev, Professor at the Higher School of Economics, explores the hopeful prospects for economic cooperation between Russia and the countries of the continent.

Shared historical memory, educational and scientific cooperation, as well as industrial cooperation are sine qua non for the progressive development of the Russian-African strategic partnership, Denis Degterev writes.

The world ceased to be unipolar by the mid-2010s, when Western scenarios of "humanitarian intervention" (Yugoslavia, Libya) no longer worked, but it is too early to talk about true multipolarity ...