Today, there are twice as many students from Africa enrolled in Russian universities as there were during the USSR. What attracts them?
Educational cooperation is one of the key elements in Russia-Africa relations: As the successor to the USSR, Russia remains one of the main destinations for African students to study in the world. The foundation for cooperation in education and the training of highly qualified professionals between the two sides, laid during the Soviet period, remains a crucial element of the attractiveness of Russian higher education to Africans today. While the early period after the collapse of the Soviet Union showed a significant decline in the number of African students in Russia, recent years have shown a reversal of the trend: an increase in the number of Africans in Russian universities and the development of multilateral university ties.
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