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Global Post — Street Life Moscow: Strange Land, An African in Russia
Pushkin in Africa — Pushkin
Russian sculptor Grigory Pototsky, who can be seen in the bottom picture, presented a bust of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin to the Ambassador of Ghana at the Ghanaian embassy in Moscow. Why? Pushkin is a great son of Africa. He is the great-grandson of Abram Gannibal, an Ethiopian noble in the court of Peter the Great.
People’s Friendship University – 50 Years Old!
The People’s Friendship University, also known as Lumumba the institution largely responsible for the greatest influx of Africans into the soviet Union and Russia, has today February 5, 2010 turned FIFTY! BBC Russian service has
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and FOUR pieces on it all in Russian…
But some good general background information is available on Wikipedia.
Scars
One of the scars left from a racist knife attack that left the liver punctured. The psychological scars are not so easily photographed.
