MOSCOW, July 24 35,000 students from Africa, over 6,000 of them through Russian scholarships.
The corresponding text was published in the article «Russia and Africa: Joining Efforts for Peace, Progress and a Successful Future» on the Kremlin website.
«Continuing established traditions, we plan to continue to provide assistance in training national personnel for African states. Today, about 35,000 students from the continent study in our country, of which more than 6,000 are at the expense of Russian scholarships. Every year we increase the number of scholarships provided, stimulate education on a commercial basis and have recently become widespread interuniversity ties, «the article of the President of the Russian Federation says.