Vsevolod Sviridov

On March 31, 2025, the White Hall of the HSE University hosted a lecture “African Energy Agenda: Prospects and Challenges” by NJ Ayuk, Chairman of the African Energy Chamber. The event was organized by the HSE Center for African Studies within its educational “Africa” track and with the support of the Roscongress Foundation. The event was moderated by Vsevolod Sviridov, Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies.

On March 22, 2025, the Open Doors Day of the "International Relations" educational programme took place at the HSE University's Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs. Vsevolod Sviridov, Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, shared his vision on the future of African studies in Russia, and also spoke in details about the educational “Africa” track that is being implemented by the Center.

On March 10, 2025, the Federation Council hold a round table on “Current issues of  foreign economic relations between the Russian regions and African States,” which was attended by federal officials, representatives of the Russian subjects, and the expert community. On behalf of the Center for African Studies, Deputy Director Vsevolod Sviridov participated in the event.

On January 30, 2025, the 12th Joint Intergovernmental Russian-Algerian Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation took place in Algiers.

The HSE University Centre for African Studies has presented an English-language expert-analytical handbook titled ‘Africa 2025: Prospects and Challenges.’ For the first time, Russian experts have prepared a comprehensive work aimed at an African audience rather than Russian readers. The handbook incorporates a significant amount of new data and introduces new approaches for assessing development prospects. The presentation took place in Sochi on November 9, 2024, during the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership Forum.

On November 9-10, the First Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum was held at Sirius University in Sochi.

On August 30, experts of the Center, its partners and friends celebrated the Center’s Birthday, as well as discussed current and future projects.

Lecturers of African Area Studies discussed the region's significance and their personal experience with African politics and culture.

On 1 August 2024, expert of the Centre for African Studies, Vsevolod Sviridov, met with Professor Quinton C. Kanhukamwe, who is the Rector of the Harare Institute of Technology.

On 30 July 2024, Andrey Maslov, Director of the Centre for African Studies, and Deputy Director, Vsevolod Sviridov, discussed the prospects of Russia-Zimbabwe cooperation in the field of e-Governance with Tafara Matekaire. Mr. Matekaire highly appreciated the results of theWinter E-Governance Knowledge Sharing Week, held in December 2023 at the HSE in Moscow. The project was launched within thee-Governance Knowledge Sharing Program.

On July 18, 2024, Andrey Maslov, Director of the Center, and Deputy Director Vsevolod Sviridov, met with Professor Barnabas Nawangwe, who is the Rector of Makerere University. Evgeny Kalashnikov, Russian Charge d’affaires in Uganda, also took part in a meeting.

On 18 July 2024, Andrey Maslov, Director of the Center, and Deputy Director, Vsevolod Sviridov, met with Chris Baryomunsi, Minister of Information and Communications Technology and National Guidance of Uganda. Evgeny Kalashnikov, Charge d’affaires of Russia in Uganda, and Michael Ocero, Acting Commissioner for e-Services at the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, also took part in the meeting.

On 16 July 2024, the delegation of the HSE Center for African Studies met with the Commission’s Director General, Nkundwe Moses Mwasaga, at its office in Dar es Salaam.

At the beginning of July, Open Air, the annual festival of bachelor's degree programs of #world_faculty - was held in Malaya Ordynka, where the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE University is located.

The delegation of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics University visited the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum held on June 5-8, 2024.

On June 8, 2024, Vsevolod Sviridov, an expert of the Center for African Studies, gave an interview on air for Sputnik Radio.

On October 31, 2023, the round table “Russian contribution to food security in Africa” was organized by the Rossotrudnichestvo. The HSE Center’s experts, Vsevolod Sviridov and Andrey Shelkovnikov, participated in it.

The delegation of the Centre for African Studies was on a working visit to Tanzania from October 19 to 28. With the assistance of the Russian Embassy in Tanzania, the Centre’s staff met with the leadership of the Tanzanian departments responsible for digitalization in order to inform them about the E-Governance Knowledge Sharing Program. The Center’s staff also met with representatives of Russian authorities and businesses and attended the Tanzania Annual ICT Conference (TAIC) and Tanzania Mining & Investment Forum.

On July 26, 2023, a military coup took place in Niger, overthrowing President Mohamed Bazoum and forming the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, headed by Abdourahamane Tchiani. A month later, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the withdrawal of the French military from Niger. In their media comments, experts of the Center for African Studies of the HSE University analyze the events in Niger.

On July 28, 2023, the second Russia-Africa summit and the Economic and Humanitarian Forum ended in St. Petersburg.

On December 15 2022, HSE Center for African Studies in partnership with the company Innopraktika held the round table « Russia-Africa: Digital Transformation of Public Administration » and presented there the concept of the e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Hub for Africa. The experts discussed suggestions regarding the contents of the e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Programme and presented reports on the prospects of cooperation with African countries in the digital markets.