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Russia-Africa Investment Hindered By Insufficient Info

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For more than two decades, Russia has been trying to regain its Soviet-era economic influence in Africa, but such efforts have regularly hit stumbling blocks. Policy experts and Russian authorities attribute this to inadequate knowledge of investment and economic possibilities on the continent. “As before, we cannot deny that Russian business structures have insufficient knowledge … Read more

Lack of Knowledge About Investment Opportunities Holds Back Russian-African Engagement

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For more than two decades, Russia has been struggling to regain its Soviet-era economic influence, but such efforts have hit stumbling blocks which policy experts and Russian authorities themselves admittedly attributed to inadequate knowledge of investment and economic possibilities in Africa. Quite recently, Keir Giles, an associate fellow (on the Russia and Eurasia Program) at … Read more