Cyan Boujee's recent trip to Russia for the Alabuga Start programme has raised serious concerns about human trafficking and ...

A young South African influencer apologised for promoting the Alabuga Start Program in Russia, which allegedly lured in young ...

The ministry confirmed that these widely circulated employment opportunities lack any official government support.

This comes as a number of online videos by South African social media influencers advertising jobs for young women in Russia have gone viral. The authorities are investigating one ...

South Africans called out Mzansi influencers, including Cyan Boujee for promoting a sketchy Russian campaign that encouraged ...

The latest drive is in South Africa, a fellow member of the BRICS block of large emerging market economies. One of the main ...

Russia is not a place known for its large African community. Afro-Russians, as many like to be known, make up only roughly 40 000 of its population of more than 144 million.

Forces identified by witnesses as Russian have “summarily executed, tortured, and beaten civilians” in the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2019, a report by rights group Human Rights ...

Also, DJ Green Velvet, an African-American path maker for post-Soviet house music, visited Russia in 1997. The same year the first African-American rapper, N’Pans, came on to a Russian stage.

“Afro-Russians want to feel Russian, but the society doesn’t want to recognize them as Russian,” she said. “Sometimes [people] will say, ‘Go back to Africa.’ ...