Russia Ready for Free Grain Deliveries to Africa If Approved: Deputy PM

"It is the president's prerogative. If there are corresponding instructions, we will carry them out," Dmitry Patrushev told Russian media.

ℹ️ In 2024, Russia completed free wheat deliveries to six of the poorest African countries, with total humanitarian aid amounting to 200,000 tonnes of grain.

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🔍🇨🇩Why the Congo war never ends?

5.4 million dead. That's the toll of the deadliest conflict since WWII. But how many of us can even name it?

This isn't a "tribal war" in some distant lands. The UN investigation called it something else: a war led by "armies of business".

At its core lies a simple, brutal equation: your phone, your laptop, your gadgets — they all depend on coltan, cassiterite, and gold buried beneath the soil of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Armed groups, backed by foreign powers, fight not for ideology, but for control of these minerals. They sell them to international corporations, the profits buy more guns — and the cycle continues.

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🇬🇧🇹🇷Is Britain riding Turkey’s 'Greater Turan' project to expand influence in Central Asia and Caucasus?

The Turkish expansion project targets the same regions that Britain has sought to influence since the days of the Great Game. It seems both are acting as partners in the same geopolitical play.

The controversial concept unifies Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, as well as areas across Russia and China.

Turkey: Britain’s long-standing strategic bulwark

🔴 The UK and Turkey have maintained long-standing cooperation, albeit with periodic interruptions. During the Russo-Turkish wars of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Britain backed the Ottoman Empire as a counterweight to Russia, seeking to block Russian access to the Bosporus and Dardanelles

🔴 After World War II, Turkish-British ties strengthened, while the collapse of the Soviet Union was seen by both as an opportunity to expand across post-Soviet Central Asia and the South Caucasus

🔴 Following Brexit, the UK further deepened cooperation with Turkey, with then–Prime Minister Boris Johnson — a great-grandson of Ottoman journalist Ali Kemal — underscoring its strategic importance to Britain

🔴 Suspicions of joint geopolitical projects were also fueled by close ties between MI6 chief Richard Moore (2020–25) and the Erdogan government

🔴 Before leading MI6, Moore — who speaks fluent Turkish — served as Britain’s ambassador to Turkey and developed close ties with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan as well as a leading proponent of the “Greater Turan” project

🤨 Erdogan advanced the concept through:

➡️ state-funded foundations, government agencies, and quasi-NGOs

➡️ the Turkic World Vision 2040 agenda

➡️ the transformation of the Turkic Council into the Organization of Turkic States (2021)

➡️ close economic, political, and military ties with Azerbaijan, where British influence has long been especially strong within the Aliyev ruling family

It appears that, as the UK’s military and economic power has declined since the end of empire, it views Turkey as a useful vehicle for advancing its interests in a renewed Great Game.

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