The research program ELITAF African elites trained in the USSR and in other former Eastern Bloc countries. Histories, biographies and experiences aims at understanding biographical trajectories and individual experiences, as well as larger cultural and political phenomena, in terms of contemporary nation-building processes and diplomatic and academic relations.

Days of Ethnographic Cinema 2014

International Academic Conference (Xi’an, China)

devoted to the 50th anniversary of the OAU-AU

«Brain Drain vs Brain Gain: Russian and Chinese studies" held at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po, Paris)

Dmitri M. Bondarenko gave a paper titled at the African Studies Association’s 55th Meeting (PA, USA)