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Russia in Africa and Frank Talk on Feminist Foreign Policies: Our Latest Podcast Episode

Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

• November 20, 2019

African summits may be in vogue worldwide, and Russia’s recent summit in Sochi in late October was no exception. A PassBlue correspondent, Joe Penney, traveled to the Black Sea resort to report on President Vladimir Putin’s pitch to African leaders, as he promoted a second African independence, this time a financial one, with offers …

Africa, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, US Foreign Relations

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Of Oil and Kalashnikovs: At the First Russia-Africa Summit, Putin Makes Power Plays

• October 28, 2019

SOCHI, Russia — As the Turkish presidential plane carried President Recep Tayyip Erdogan across the Black Sea from Sochi, Russia, back to Ankara last week, dozens of African heads of state arrived in this resort city for the inaugural Russia-Africa Summit the next morning. During two days at a convention center in the Olympic …

Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, US Foreign Relations

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