On May 13 – 30, 2010 a team of Russian Cultural Anthropologists from the Institute for African Studies conducted fieldwork in the Republic of Zambia (in the cities of Lusaka and Livingstone).

The Center of History and Cultural Anthropology (under the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) will hold in Moscow on May 27–28, 2010 the International Seminar ‘Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination. As We Have Seen These… ’.

Dmitri M. Bondarenko took part in the Midwest Political Science Association 68th Annual Meeting held in Chicago on April 22 - 25, 2010.

Dmitri M. Bondarenko presented a paper at the American Anthropological Association 108th Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia on December 2 - 6, 2009.

On October 19 – November 1, 2009 a team of Russian Cultural Anthropologists from the Institute for African Studies conducted fieldwork in the Republic of Rwanda (in the cities of Gisenyi, Huye-Butare, Kigali, Nyanza).

The “Marjani” Publishing House has released the collection of articles “Islam in Europe and in Russia” compiled and edited by Ekaterina B. Demintseva.