Russia’s cooperation strategy with the countries of the African continent: what has changed after the second summit Russia–Africa?

The article analyzes the results of the second Summit and the Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum, identifies the key directions of the new strategy for Russian-African interaction and specific steps for its implementation in the context of the transformation of the system of international relations. The author, as a direct participant and one of the organizers of the summit, evaluates the results that were achieved within a year after the historic Russian-African summit in July 2023 in St. Petersburg, as well as the role of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the development of mutually beneficial cooperation between Russia and Africa. The author emphasizes that one of the key areas of Russian-African relations should be educational, scientific and technological partnership, primarily in such areas as energy, agriculture, combating biological threats, space, medicine, geology, ensuring the population’s access to clean water, information and communication technologies, humanities. It is argued that it is cooperation in the field of science and technology that can make a decisive contribution to ensuring the true sovereignty and security of the countries of the world majority, including Russia and African states.