{"id":1842,"date":"2019-06-03T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T19:17:48","slug":"russia-a-strategic-alternative-prof-janos-besenyo-at-cnbc-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/en\/russia-a-strategic-alternative-prof-janos-besenyo-at-cnbc-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: A strategic alternative? &#8211; Prof. J\u00e1nos Beseny\u0151 at CNBC Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the Cold War Russia was seeking to find a way to counter the influence of its rivals such as the US. So, it had began to develop diplomatic relations with its African counterparts. After some intermission during the 1990s, Russian-African relations have started to flourish when Putin came to power in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the US\u2019s ultimate aim is to\u00a0tip the regional balance of power\u00a0in its favour and have access to Africa\u2019s resources, Moscow is now countering America\u2019s influence in the continent by gaining control of natural resources and providing military support and intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many African countries Russia can offer a strategic alternative to political and economic great powers as well as former colonial masters \u2013 said Prof. J\u00e1nos Beseny\u0151, Head of Africa Research Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original post is available on CNBC Africa by clicking on the link below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbcafrica.com\/2019\/with-russia-expanding-its-interests-in-africa-can-it-serve-as-an-alternative-to-the-us-and-china\/\">https:\/\/www.cnbcafrica.com\/2019\/with-russia-expanding-its-interests-in-africa-can-it-serve-as-an-alternative-to-the-us-and-china\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Cold War Russia was seeking to find a way to counter the influence of its rivals such as the US. So, it had began to develop diplomatic relations with its African counterparts. After some intermission during the 1990s, Russian-African relations have started to flourish when Putin came to power in 1999. While the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"schneider.richard","author_link":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/author\/schneider-richard\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdi.uni-obuda.hu\/aki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}