Atlantic Council’s Pham shares insights on Russia’s acitivities on the continent
Under pressure from the West over its actions in Ukraine, including the annexation of Crimea, Russia is increasingly turning its attention to Africa, says J. Peter Pham, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. “Recent developments have validated these concerns as the siloviki around [Russian President Vladimir] Putin have not only returned to the former Soviet Union’s theaters of operations in Africa, but done so in force across a range of sectors, the connections between which are, more often than not, far from transparent,” Pham writes in AfricaSource. Pham writes:
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Source: Atlantic Council
