Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moscow uses 'Russian Houses' in Africa to lure recruits into war in Ukraine, investigation shows Moscow is waging “a war for the ...

Russia is using its network of so-called Russian Houses in Africa – Kremlin-controlled cultural centres used for propaganda – as a cover for ideological indoctrination and the covert recruitment of ...

B UNJU, ON THE outskirts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, has many of the hallmarks of a new African suburb. The houses are a mix of finished, half-finished and not-ye ...

There’s an exhibition in Niamey around the Russian victory over the Mongols at the battle of Koulikovo in the 14th century. In Bamako, there’s an evening dedicated to the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, ...

Moscow is waging “a war for the minds” of Africans by rolling out a hybrid network of so-called "Russian Houses" in addition to arms supplies and direct military aid to military juntas in Africa, ...