UK’s New Strategy for Africa in Light of Russia’s Interests

. In the past two years, a certain number of world powers have announced the development or update of their African strategies, which is directly related both to the profound changes taking place in the world, and to the general recognition of the African region increased importance in the world economy and international relations. Due to Brexit and in light of the concept of Global Britain, London considers the development of strategies in order to explore alternative markets with the aim to compensate the loss of the state and private business revenues by activating the African vector of its policy. The article summarizes and analyzes the content of the UK strategic documents adopted in the last two years by various state bodies and departments in the African direction ‒ political, military, economic, etc. They are scrutinized from the angle of current Russian interests and strategies. The authors come to the conclusion that despite of the similarities of the official content of the African strategies of Russia and the UK, the possibilities of real UK-Russia cooperation in the region in the interests of its peoples or in their own national interests are low.