Deputy Director of the Institute Prof. Dmitri M. Bondarenko was awarded a Certificate of Gratitude from the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature for participation in the First International Festival "Hot African Summer in the Library for Foreign Literature".

(Basel, Switzerland)

February 28, 2017 the Institute for African Studies hosted a meeting with colleagues from the Royal Museum of African Art, Brussels. Prof. Dmitri Bondarenko, Deputy Director of the Institute, discussed with Dr.

5-7 December 2016 members of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in annual 39th Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) in Perth, Western Austalia.

Prof. Dmitri Bondarenko and Dr. Veronica Usacheva gave papers on their recent research

Veronica Usacheva took part in the 74th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference held on 7-10 April in Chicago (USA).