Russia–Sudan relations

Russia–Sudan relations

Russia	Sudan

Russia–Sudan relations refers to the bilateral relations between Russia and Sudan. Russia has an embassy in Khartoum and Sudan has an embassy in Moscow.

For decades, Russia and Sudan have maintained a strong economic and politically strategic partnership. Due to solidarity with both the United States and the Soviet Union, Sudan declared neutrality and instead chose membership in the Non-Aligned Movement throughout the four decades-long war. Russo-Sudanese relations were minorly damaged, when in 1971, when the Sudanese Communist Party attempted to assassinate then-president Gaafar Nimeiry, and Nimeiry pegged the blame on the USSR, thus enhancing Sudanese relations with the West, and where damaged again when Sudan supported the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan when the USSR invaded in 1979. Due to a common enemy, diplomatic cooperation dramatically got back on track during the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Vladimir Putin was elected the President of Russia, and along with Chinese leader Hu Jintao opposed UN Peacekeepers in Darfur. Russia is Sudan's strongest investment partner and political ally in Europe; and now there are Sudanese collegians studying in Russian universities.

See Also

• Foreign relations of Russia
• Foreign relations of Sudan