Prospects for Expanding Russia’s Economic Interaction With African Countries

... compete with large-scale Western investment or Chinese infrastructure projects (until recently). Today the situation has changed radically. The events in Libya, the Central African Republic and Mali have shown that Russia can be an effective supplier of military assistance to African governments to maintain the stability of governments or their political positions: and this time not with the help of suitcases of cash and unrecoverable loans, as in the 1970s, but in the form of military advisers for the ...