HSE Students Presented at a Conference in Preparation for the Second Russian-African Summit

February 9, 2023 student of the educational program “Population and Development” Adeitan Mustafa Adenii made a presentation at the conference in the format of a round table discussion organized in preparation for the 2nd Russia-Africa summit, which is scheduled for July 2023. The virtual event which was gathered by the Russian-African club in conjunction with the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University (MSU) had over 100 participants drawn from both academia and media industries. In particular, 35 participants from four regions of Africa and Russia made presentations at the conference.

One of the speakers of the round table was our student, who, together with his colleague from the Faculty of Critical Media Studies of the Higher School of Economics, made a report entitled “Patterns of Media Expansion and Convergence in African-Russian Market: Emerging Opportunities for Media and Technology Sectors.”  The paper is aimed to further call the attention of the Russian environment to opportunities that are inherent in Africa. In addition, the work has a goal to assist Africa in obtaining information about Russia directly from the Russian media instead of focusing on the Western view of events that are happening in Russia.