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🌾 🇷🇺 The capacity of Russian ports for grain transshipment may grow by 36% to 117 million tonnes by 2035, the first deputy director of Russia's Center for Strategic Research says

"At the beginning of 2024, the grain transshipment capacity in Russian ports was 86 million tonnes. The main part of the grain volume is wheat, barley, and corn. A number of grain capacity construction projects are planned. Taking into account the launch of projects and the reduction of transshipment volumes, the total capacity can reach up to 117 million tonnes by 2035; they will be used for coastal transportation, the transshipment of compound feeds, and other bulk food cargoes," Tatyana Gorovaya told Sputnik.

According to her, in 2023, Russia set a record for grain exports of 65 million tonnes. Last year, the main supplies of agricultural products fell on the countries of North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, and Iran.

"Exports to China are also expected to increase due to the conclusion of a long-term grain supply agreement," Gorovaya added.

The main terminals of grain transshipment today are located in the Azov-Black Sea basin in the country's ports of Novorossiysk, Kavkaz (including raid transshipment), Taman, Azov, Rostov-on-Don, and Tuapse, as well as in Russia's northwest in the port of Kaliningrad, Gorovaya explained.

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🌾 🌐 BRICS grain exchange will help stabilize markets, Head of FAO's Russian branch says

Once established, such an institution "would bring together the largest buyers and exporters of grain in the world," Oleg Kobyakov told Sputnik Africa.

He noted that today "only the Chicago Stock Exchange actually dictates wheat prices to the whole world."

According to him, the possible BRICS grain exchange would ensure "better predictability of the market for the next season."

"And, of course, the growth of this second global grain center will lower prices in the more distant perspective," the official highlighted.

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April 3 this year The Russian Ambassador to Ethiopia E.E. Terekhin visited the Ethiopian Harambe University in Adama.
During the meeting with the founder and owner of Feiss Ararssa University, current issues and prospects for the development of interuniversity cooperation were discussed. The university management noted the growing interest among its students in the Russian language and expressed a request to create corresponding courses at the University.
The Russian ambassador spoke to the faculty and students of the university about the history of relations between Russia and Ethiopia, Moscow’s foreign policy priorities, including in the field of strengthening international solidarity in countering modern practices of neo-colonialism.
The ambassador also visited the Kamara school and the Oda boarding school for gifted children.

The presence of Russian media on the African continent needs to be strengthened. This measure will help convey truthful information about the country and the geopolitical situation.

To do this you need to use newspapers and radio. It is these communication channels that are most common in African states. In Ethiopia, for example, they are ready to help with the translation and placement of materials about Russia.

More details - Professor of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia Nigusie Kassae W. Mikael.

📆 On April 6, 1654, exactly 370 years ago, Russia's Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich Romanov aka Alexey I, granted his royal charter to Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host Bogdan Khmelnitsky. The document secured Russia’s reunification with Left-Bank Ukraine (then – part of Little Russia aka Malorossiya).

In the late 16th and the first half of the 17th century, pressure on the Orthodox population increased from the Polish-Lithuanian gentry in the lands of Ancient Rus controlled by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

After the Union of Brest was adopted in 1596, a majority of Orthodox priests became completely subordinate to the Pope. Those who remained faithful to Orthodoxy became outcasts and were deprived of hierarchical leadership, since Metropolitan of Kiev Mikhail Rogoza also joined the Greek Catholics. The gentry pursued aggressive Polonisation and Latinisation policy, and those who had the courage to resist were deprived of titles and lands and suffered persecution.

All attempts by the Zaporozhian Cossacks to come to an agreement with the Polish king failed as the Polish nobility did not plan to tolerate a free Orthodox community in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Under the threat of losing religious and national identity, a liberation movement of the Orthodox population of the Dnieper region began to form, with prerequisites created for supporters who sought to overthrow the gentry and reunify with Russia.

In 1648, the Cossacks stepped up their liberation struggle led by Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky, who repeatedly asked Tsar Alexey I for help, urging him to take the Hetmanate under “his royal hand.”

On January 8, 1654, Pereyaslav Rada officially declared the acceptance of the Zaporozhian Cossacks into the Russian state. On April 5, Tsar Alexey I signed the royal charter, where the Russian monarch’s title “Tsar of all Russia Great and Little” was used for the first time.

👉 Read more about the Pereyaslav Agreement