Veronica Usacheva and Natalia Zherlitsyna took part at the International Conference "Africa's Future and Struggle of New and Old Actors" on March 13 - 14, 2012.

Veronica Usacheva presented the paper The Image of Africa in International Media and Its Russian Interpretation; Natalia Zherlitsyna presented the paper Tunisian Democratization Experience.

The International Conference on "Africa's Future and Struggle of New and Old Actors" was convened by The Institute of African Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Germany) on March 13 - 14, 2012.