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🌍 On May 25, the world celebrates #AfricaDay.
On this day in 1963, exactly 60 years ago, African governments convened in Addis Ababa for the first conference which laid the foundation for the creation of the Organisation of African Unity.
🇷🇺 Russia and Africa are united by traditional bonds of friendship, and it is symbolic that this anniversary year we are holding the second #RussiaAfrica Summit.
🤝 The Soviet Union supported the African countries in their fight for independence and played an important role in the development of the young countries on the continent. Soviet military advisers worked in Africa and military specialists have served in Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mozambique and other African countries at various times.
🤝 Under pressure from the Soviet Union, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted, which declared the need to end colonialism and any other form of discrimination.
❌ The Western powers are not just continuing to exploit the African nations, pumping out resources while counting corporate profits, but they have also been cleaning up their own ugly past.
The falsification of history is also about the cynical unpublished campaign to hush up the horrors of the colonial era. The West is trying to pretend that the suffering that many generations of Africans have gone through, as well as racism, the slave trade, murders and punitive operations, had nothing to do with them
A quickly made-up story about “events” aimed to highlight white people of the West’s concern for people of colour has been planted, but in fact, this is nothing more than a flashmob with no deep realisation of the harm. On the contrary, the ideology of a “beautiful garden” and a “wild jungle” is being promoted.
There is the pretence that everything that took place back then, in the colonial era, seemed to have happened and at the same time not to have happened at all.
☝️ Yet Africa remembers.
#AfricaDay
On this day in 1963, exactly 60 years ago, African governments convened in Addis Ababa for the first conference which laid the foundation for the creation of the Organisation of African Unity.
🇷🇺 Russia and Africa are united by traditional bonds of friendship, and it is symbolic that this anniversary year we are holding the second #RussiaAfrica Summit.
🤝 The Soviet Union supported the African countries in their fight for independence and played an important role in the development of the young countries on the continent. Soviet military advisers worked in Africa and military specialists have served in Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mozambique and other African countries at various times.
🤝 Under pressure from the Soviet Union, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted, which declared the need to end colonialism and any other form of discrimination.
❌ The Western powers are not just continuing to exploit the African nations, pumping out resources while counting corporate profits, but they have also been cleaning up their own ugly past.
The falsification of history is also about the cynical unpublished campaign to hush up the horrors of the colonial era. The West is trying to pretend that the suffering that many generations of Africans have gone through, as well as racism, the slave trade, murders and punitive operations, had nothing to do with them
A quickly made-up story about “events” aimed to highlight white people of the West’s concern for people of colour has been planted, but in fact, this is nothing more than a flashmob with no deep realisation of the harm. On the contrary, the ideology of a “beautiful garden” and a “wild jungle” is being promoted.
There is the pretence that everything that took place back then, in the colonial era, seemed to have happened and at the same time not to have happened at all.
☝️ Yet Africa remembers.
#AfricaDay
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🗓 Today, on June 5, the XXVII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has kicked off. The main theme of the event is "The Formation of New Areas of Growth as the Cornerstone of a Multipolar World".
Over the years, the Forum has become the world's leading platform for the business community to communicate and discuss key economic issues facing Russia, emerging markets and the world as a whole.
👨💼👩💼 More than 17,100 people from 136 countries and territories, as well as 3,400 media representatives are participating in SPIEF-2024.
The plenary session of the Forum will traditionally be addressed by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who has previously sent greeting to the participants, organisers and guests of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The SPIEF-2024 business programme consists of four thematic tracks:
🔹 The Transition to a Multipolar World Economy;
🔹 Goals and Objectives of Russia’s New Economic Cycle;
🔹 Technologies for Leadership;
🔹 A Healthy Society, Traditional Values and Social Development: The Priority of the State.
The programme includes more than 150 thematic sessions with over 1,000 moderators and speakers.
In addition, events organised by the Russian Foreign Ministry will traditionally take place on the margins of the SPIEF:
• On June 7, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing, as well as a session on "International and National Experiences of Artificial Intelligence Regulation: Best Practices";
• On June 8, The International Affairs, a magazine published by the Foreign Ministry, will hold a debate titled "Polycentricity: The Norm of a Future World without Colonies and Hegemons".
🤝 The programme of events of the SPIEF-2024 international track includes more than 10 business dialogues, including formats EAEU-ASEAN, #RussiaAfrica, #RussiaLatinAmerica, #RussiaChina, #RussiaSouthAfrica, #RussiaKazakhstan, #RussiaIndia, #RussiaIran, #RussiaBrazil and other bilateral meetings.
The forum will last until June 8.
#SPIEF2024
Over the years, the Forum has become the world's leading platform for the business community to communicate and discuss key economic issues facing Russia, emerging markets and the world as a whole.
👨💼👩💼 More than 17,100 people from 136 countries and territories, as well as 3,400 media representatives are participating in SPIEF-2024.
The plenary session of the Forum will traditionally be addressed by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who has previously sent greeting to the participants, organisers and guests of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The SPIEF-2024 business programme consists of four thematic tracks:
🔹 The Transition to a Multipolar World Economy;
🔹 Goals and Objectives of Russia’s New Economic Cycle;
🔹 Technologies for Leadership;
🔹 A Healthy Society, Traditional Values and Social Development: The Priority of the State.
The programme includes more than 150 thematic sessions with over 1,000 moderators and speakers.
In addition, events organised by the Russian Foreign Ministry will traditionally take place on the margins of the SPIEF:
• On June 7, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing, as well as a session on "International and National Experiences of Artificial Intelligence Regulation: Best Practices";
• On June 8, The International Affairs, a magazine published by the Foreign Ministry, will hold a debate titled "Polycentricity: The Norm of a Future World without Colonies and Hegemons".
🤝 The programme of events of the SPIEF-2024 international track includes more than 10 business dialogues, including formats EAEU-ASEAN, #RussiaAfrica, #RussiaLatinAmerica, #RussiaChina, #RussiaSouthAfrica, #RussiaKazakhstan, #RussiaIndia, #RussiaIran, #RussiaBrazil and other bilateral meetings.
The forum will last until June 8.
#SPIEF2024
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📺 Watch Minister-Counsellor Alexander Gusarov's interview with the Southern African Times
Key talking points:
• Russia is returning to Africa, rekindling lost connections and tapping new opportunities. <...> We are reopening or establishing new embassies across the region. We have established a new department within the Russian MFA to deal with the partnership with Africa. This shows the level of our political and economic investment into the region.
• With its growing population, treasure trove of natural resources and industrial development, Africa really is the continent of the future. We are doing our utmost to engage in demand-driven cooperation with African countries, both bilaterally and multilaterally.
• Russia has not just aligned itself with decolonization efforts, but we have actually spearheaded and championed these efforts in many different ways. Our country was actively driving the decolonization process, contributing to the self-determination of African nations.
• When we meet with our African colleagues, we try to talk less and listen more. We have the Russia-Africa Summit. Last year, we held the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum meeting at ministerial level. These are all formats for discussing manifold avenues for cooperation, be it healthcare, education, telecommunications or space research.
• We have ramped up scholarship grants for African students. We are fine-tuning the system of vocational tuition and guidance, opening up new linguistics courses within Russian universities, and also faculties of Russian universities in Africa. At the time of the first Russia-Africa Summit back in 2019, there were about 17,000 African students studying in Russia. Last year, it was 35,000.
• We are coordinating quite closely with African colleagues <...> at the UN on a plethora of issues. Russia's position is more often than not closer to the stance adopted by the countries of the Global South, including Africa. As for Africa's representation within multilateral bodies, we are certainly supportive of these endeavors, including in the UN Security Council.
• Russia is able to provide quite substantive technological advances, for example in the nuclear sphere, such as small modular reactors. It would certainly be useful to quenching African energy needs.
Watch the interview in full on our YouTube channel
#RussiaAfrica
Key talking points:
• Russia is returning to Africa, rekindling lost connections and tapping new opportunities. <...> We are reopening or establishing new embassies across the region. We have established a new department within the Russian MFA to deal with the partnership with Africa. This shows the level of our political and economic investment into the region.
• With its growing population, treasure trove of natural resources and industrial development, Africa really is the continent of the future. We are doing our utmost to engage in demand-driven cooperation with African countries, both bilaterally and multilaterally.
• Russia has not just aligned itself with decolonization efforts, but we have actually spearheaded and championed these efforts in many different ways. Our country was actively driving the decolonization process, contributing to the self-determination of African nations.
• When we meet with our African colleagues, we try to talk less and listen more. We have the Russia-Africa Summit. Last year, we held the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum meeting at ministerial level. These are all formats for discussing manifold avenues for cooperation, be it healthcare, education, telecommunications or space research.
• We have ramped up scholarship grants for African students. We are fine-tuning the system of vocational tuition and guidance, opening up new linguistics courses within Russian universities, and also faculties of Russian universities in Africa. At the time of the first Russia-Africa Summit back in 2019, there were about 17,000 African students studying in Russia. Last year, it was 35,000.
• We are coordinating quite closely with African colleagues <...> at the UN on a plethora of issues. Russia's position is more often than not closer to the stance adopted by the countries of the Global South, including Africa. As for Africa's representation within multilateral bodies, we are certainly supportive of these endeavors, including in the UN Security Council.
• Russia is able to provide quite substantive technological advances, for example in the nuclear sphere, such as small modular reactors. It would certainly be useful to quenching African energy needs.
Watch the interview in full on our YouTube channel
#RussiaAfrica