On December 14-15, 2022, the All-Russian Scientific Conference “Sources for African History: Problems, Trends, Prospects of Study and Use”. was held, dedicated to the birthdays of famous africanists Georgii Tsypkin, Irina Filatova, and Alexander Balezin. The event was organized by the Center for African Studies of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. and was conducted offline and online.
From November to December 2021, the Principal Research Fellow V.G. Shubin, Research Fellow A.A. Arkhangelskaya, Senior Research Fellow V.A. Sidorov and Junior Research Fellow D.A. Turianitsa conducted field research in South Africa supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No.
Bondarenko D.M. "Post-Colonial Nations in the Historical and Cultural Context"