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Africa is the fastest-growing energy market in the world. The continent is on the verge of geometric economic growth, but until recently, almost 1.5 billion people had no access to domestic electric power. Various investments, initiatives, and projects by Russia, China, and other nations now vie for top positions geostrategically and economically. At a plenary session of Russian Energy Week in October, President Vladimir Putin stressed the necessity for Russia to ensure energy security on the old continent…

The very recent liberation of the key Malian town of Kidal – and in a much shorter time than some experts had anticipated – came as a real shock to all neo-colonial forces in the West and opponents of the African-Russian alliance. Two key areas were recently analysed – the fact that the West is very reluctant to believe in the military successes of African countries (without the participation of Western forces), although it still has to, and that the current French and Western information attacks against Mali and a number…

The West has always posed itself as the flag bearer of human rights. Even the ideology of democracy promoted by the West also predicates on these very rights. Most of the wars fought by Western leaders and countries were under the pretense of safeguarding human rights. However, a profound and in-depth study of history unravels some bitter truths about the Western history of wars and the atrocities committed by it during the occupation and colonization of different regions…