How Putin’s war turned an economic conference into an alliance against the West

The Telegraph
3 Jun 2023

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces an uncomfortable diplomatic conundrum. Two months after he invited Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to a summit in Johannesburg this August, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president for war crimes in Ukraine. SAIIA’s Senior Researcher, Cobus van Staden, discusses Pretoria’s ties with the Kremlin in an interview with the Telegraph.

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