... crisis is too deep to be resolved in a single press conference and a trip. Interestingly, the same assessment prevails inside France. According to
surveys
, about 60% of respondents are pessimistic about the future of Franco-African relations. Against this background, while French diplomacy is overcoming the legacy of the past, there is a favorable situation for the expansion of the presence of Russia, which has no colonial past in Africa and could fill a number of promising niches where French influence has weakened. ...
... prospects for Russia-Europe cooperation
On October 29, 2021, RIAC held the second webinar to analyze the challenges in Central Africa and the Sahel region and to discuss the prospects for Russia-Europe cooperation. CONFLITS, the French magazine, is RIAC’s partner that covers the issues of history, geopolitics, ... ... Foundation; Daniel Dory, former Vice Minister of Territorial Planning of Bolivia, Associate Professor, La Rochelle University (France); Wolfgang Pusztai, Senior Advisor at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna.
Russian ...
... was time to “modernize” FIFA president Sepp Blatter has turned football into a money machine that is expanding in Africa the Middle East and Asia, and maintaining a profitable scenario for marketing partners in a troubled global economy.
... ... corruption and bribery.
Petro Poroshenko, the pro-Washington president of Ukraine, is calling for a boycott of the FIFA 2018 Russia World Cup. The move is reminiscent of U.S. President Jimmy Carter's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow,...
... the United States Department of Energy, the Emirates have the world’s seventh largest natural gas deposits but investment in sophisticated techniques are required to process it into liquid natural gas, which can be offered by Algeria, Russia, France and the United States, among others.
Will Russia play an expanded role in across the Maghreb and in the Sahel regions of Africa?
The threat potential in and around the Tindouf camps and elsewhere in southern Algeria continues to grow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met three times with Algerian counterpart Ramtane Lamamra over the past six months, most recently ...
