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The Institute for African Studies (IAS)

IAS is a research body incorporated in and
funded by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
The Institute has been conducting
research on historical, socio-economic,
ethno-cultural and political problems
of all independent African nations.

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Field work

Field work has always been one
of the brightest components of the
activities of the Institute for African Studies.
In the 1960s these expeditions became
a regular activity of the Institute.
The key feature of all field research
in African countries has been their integrated nature.

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Conference

Conferences are a major part of
activities of the Institute. They brighten
up the routine, provide new impetus
to the research, open up new fields
of study and expand the boundaries
of research activities.

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Publishing activities

The Institute for African Studies carries
out its publishing activities by publishing books,
pamphlets and articles relevant to the problems
of Africa, the Arab East, Russia and the CIS.
There is the Editing and Publishing Department
and a Printing shop at the Institute.

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Doctoral Studies Department

The Institute’s Doctoral Studies Department
is an independent structural unit, which deals
with the training of scholarly experts in the problems
of Africa. For the last half century the Institute had
more than 462 Ph.D. students and 32 Doctor of Science
fellows who successfully defended their thesis.
Among them 139 persons were foreign citizens.

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The Council of Young Researchers

The Council of Young Researchers
was recreated in 2009 with the object
of uniting the young researchers,
expressing their interests, saving
scientific potential and overcoming
negative tendency of the generation gap.

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Library

The library of the Institute for African Studies is the only
comprehensive collection of scientific and reference literature
on Africa in the Russian Federation and CIS countries.
The library makes a branch of the RAS Institute of Scientific Information
on Social Sciences (ISISS). Its stock numbers about 120 thousand
of library items: books, pamphlets, dissertations and periodicals in Russian
and foreign languages covering the problems of Africa and the Arab East.

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Eldar SALAKHETDINOV

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Centre for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies

E-mail: e.salakhetdinov@gmail.com

Area of Expertise

https://www.elibrary.ru/author_items.asp?authorid=843428

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Achieving Energy Security in Africa: Prospects of Nuclear Energy Development in South Africa and Nigeria. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 2020, 1-9.
‘Rosatom and Nuclear Power in South Africa: Assistance and Resistance’, in van der Merwe J, Bond P, and Dodd N. (ed.) BRICS and Resistance in Africa: Contention, Assimilation and Co-Optation. London: Zed Books, 2019, 223-239.
Innovative Energy: Russian Projects in South Africa. The Problems of forecasting, 2018, №3. (in Russian);
Russian Projects and Energy Cooperation in South Africa. Studies on Russian Economic Development, 2018, №29 (3), 336–342.
South Africa: Russian Digital Springboard. Asia and Africa today. 2017, № 4, 34-37 (in Russian).
Review of "Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria", by L. Wedeen. Symbolic Policy, 2015, №3, 351- 357 (in Russian).
Zimbabwe - China: Risks and Benefits of Cooperation. Asia and Africa Today, 2014, №12, 54-60 (in Russian).
Zimbabwe - EU: Problems and Prospects of Cooperation (1980-2014). Asia and Africa Today, 2014, № 9, 56-61. (in Russian).
Zimbabwe in the International Arena. Almanac of the Council of Young Scientists of the Institute for African Studies RAS, 2014, №1, 214-233 (in Russian).
Russia and the Republic of Zimbabwe: Trends and Prospects for Cooperation. Herald of the Federal State Institution "State Registration Chamber at the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation", 2013, №5, 37-48. (in Russian).