Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he is happy with the constructive relations his country shares with Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
He expressed his happiness in a letter on Africa Day in which he also said that he expected the good relations to be enhanced during the Russia-Africa Summit and Business Forum set for October in Sochi. He said:<\/p>\n
I am pleased to note the friendly and constructive relations that our countries enjoy.<\/p>\n
I am confident that the Russia-Africa Summit and the Business Forum that we will hold in Sochi in October will foster qualitative development of these relations and help us outline new forms of fruitful cooperation.<\/p>\n
I sincerely wish you good health and success in State activities as well as peace and well-being to the peoples of the African continent.<\/p>\n
Zimbabwean and Russian relations go back to pre-independence. Zimbabwean liberation fighters received their training from Russia. After Independence, the two countries continued working together in areas such as mining.<\/p>\n
Critiques, however, argue that the relationship is not balanced as Russia, like China, is robbing Zimbabwe of its natural resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he is happy with the constructive relations his country shares with Zimbabwe. He expressed his happiness in a letter on Africa Day in which he also said that he expected the good relations to be enhanced during the Russia-Africa Summit and Business Forum set for October in Sochi. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[471,55,111,149,320],"class_list":["post-9362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-china","tag-government","tag-politics","tag-president","tag-relations"],"yoast_head":"\n