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International online forum-exhibition

EURASIA -AFRICA 2025

Join the largest online communication platform for entrepreneurs from Africa and Eurasia!

July 10 - 12, 2025

12.00 MSC

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Venue:
Kaluga, Zheleznyaki str. 10, bld. 5
Pandora Trade

About forum

The «Eurasia – Africa» is a large-scale international forum and exhibition organized to present the investment, economic and tourism potential of regions of different countries of Greater Eurasia and Africa. The Forum creates a platform for exchanging experiences and establishing business connections between professionals from African and Eurasian countries.

700+

contacts

Opportunity to establish connections with partners, investors and find promising projects

999+

participants

Current and aspiring entrepreneurs, top managers and investors

15+

experts

Will share the strategies and tools that have led them to millions of dollars in revenue

59

countries

54 African countries, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan

To marketers, advertising and PR specialists

Managers of state and municipal institutions

Top managers and executives of companies

Entrepreneurs and business owners

The forum will be useful:

format of participation

The forum will be held in two phases:

02

01

Thematic sessions: Discussion of cases and peculiarities of the African and Eurasian markets with speakers.

International Trade and Partnership

Agro-industrial complex

Mineral Extraction and Processing

Transport and financial logistics

key themes:

Panel discussion: Speeches by members of the presidium. Presentation of the potential of the Kaluga region «Kaluga region unlimited possibilities».

convenient HYBRID format

Special formats of speeches: reports with expert comments, product presentations, case studies, expert rooms in Telegram

Record the event after the event

Participate in discussions and polls

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Participate in the forum in person or directly from your workplace! A reliable online platform provides:

honored guests

The list is updated as applications are received

Vladislav Valerievich Shapsha

Governor of the Kaluga Region
Natali Aziza Munana

Minister of Social Action, Humanitarian Action and National Solidarity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Andrey Yuryevich Belianinov

Secretary General of the Assembly of the Peoples of the World
Augusto da Silva Cunha

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Angola to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries
Kirill Vladimirovitch Babaev

President of the National Coordination Center for International Business Cooperation
Akambi Andre Okunlola Biaou

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Benin to the Russian Federation
Fredrick Ibrahim Kibuta

Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries
Mohamed Yongava

Ambassador of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries
Lotfi Bouchaara

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Morocco to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries
Genet Teshome Girroux

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ethiopia to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries
Luciano Nkogo Ndong Ayekaba

Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries
Aristide Rapugdondba Ludovic Tapsob

Ambassador of Burkina Faso to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries
Joseph Nkurunziza

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Burundi to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries
Seydou Camissoco

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mali to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries
Aba Nyankoy

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Guinea to the Russian Federation and other CIS countries

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Speakers

The list is updated as applications are received

Serge Phocas Odunlami

Chairman of the "Africa Calling!" Business Club, President of ANO "House of Africa"
Anna Borisovna Koroleva

Acting Minister of Economic Development and Industry of the Kaluga Region (Russia)
Anna Nikolayevna Chernova

Minister of Health of the Kaluga Region (Russia)
Aminou Akadiri

Director of the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FEWACCI)
Polina Mikhailovna Kochenkova

Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Kaluga Region (Russia)
Peter Capr Bangura

Director, Mineral Resources Agency
(Sierra Leone)
Nikolai Petrovich Tubenshlyak

General Director of the State Autonomous Institution of the Kaluga Region "Business Development Agency" of the Kaluga Region
Victor Mahele

Deputy Director, Department of Trade and Industry
(South Africa)
Roman Potekhin

Executive Director of the ROR "Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of the Kaluga Region"
Nakadongo Ngomuo

Investment Promotion Manager Office of the President - Planning and Investment
(Tanzania)
Komissarova Violetta Ivanovna

President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Kaluga Region
Adama N Diarra

Former Minister of Youth and Sports of Mali,
Director of the company «SESAME SARL»
Maksim Alekseevich Kazak

Rector of K.E. Tsiolkovsky KSU (Russia)
Erik Udo

Banker (BSIC BANK)
Expert in the field of finance
Galli Germanovna Monastyreva

Director of Humanitarian Affairs, Association for Economic Cooperation with African Countries
Miranda Kiala

President of the Russian-Angolan Chamber of Commerce
Yury Sergeevich Saprygin

Commercial Director, LLC Liston (Russia)
Magnon AFI Vignon

Vice-President of the Association of Women for the Promotion of Exports (AFPEx-TOGO)
Lommas Ekaterina Alexandrovna

Leading specialist of the media relations department of the "Alabuga"
TRO Kelasson

General Director of AGRO GROUP (GIA)
Freddy Dominique Zanga

President of the International Chamber of Consulting and Promotion (CICP)
TEFERET TCHOFFA

Managing Director of SARL "TEFERET"
President of the "ACARAD" association
NGO TOWADA Marie Caroline

CEO of "KINDAK ADVYS"
Dede Coulibaly

Managing partner of SAMA Pay JSC - Financial services, Payment system (Mali)

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Forum Program

Minor changes in the program are possible

10 July 2025

Forum Industry Day

Participation format: Face-to-face (for registered foreign delegations only)
This day is dedicated to a business programme for participants coming from Africa. We will organise an exclusive visit to leading industrial enterprises and factories in the Kaluga region to showcase the region's production potential.
The day's programme includes:

Tour of key industrial facilities.
B2B meetings on-site to establish direct business contacts.
Consecutive interpretation will be provided for all tour participants.

11 July 2025

Main Day of the Eurasia-Africa Forum

1 part of the business program: Thematic session “Presentation of economic, cultural and tourist potential”

Participation Format: Hybrid (Face-to-Face + Online)
The main day of the forum will be held in a hybrid format, bringing together participants both on-site in Kaluga and in the online space. Everyone is welcome to participate in the format they are comfortable with.

In-person participation: Gives full access to all sessions, plenary session, networking zones and exhibition at the main forum venue.
Online participation: Provides an opportunity to join the live broadcast of key sessions and discussions of the forum via your personal account on the website.

Venue: Kaluga, Zheleznyaki str. 10, bld. 5 (Pandora Trade Ltd)
Consecutive interpretation and online broadcast of key sessions will be available for participants.

12:25 – 12:30

Gathering of participants. Welcome coffee break.

12:30 – 12:45

Welcome speech

Representative of the Government of Kaluga Region (to be specified)
Tulikunkiko Francois Xavier, Representative of the Board of the Union of African Diaspora for Truth and Advancement of People of African Descent “Inganzo Gakondo”
Tubenshlyak Nikolai Petrovich, Director General of the Kaluga Region Business Development Agency

12:45 – 14:15

Expert session

Presentation of the Kaluga Region Business Development Agency on work in the field of international cooperation with African states. Prospects of development.
Nikolai Tubenshlyak, Director General of the Kaluga Region Business Development Agency SAU KO
Greater Eurasia-Africa: Sustainable Development.
Aminu Akadiri, Director, Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FEWACCI), Benin (online connection)
Mutually beneficial partnership between Russian and African business (2025) - difficult but possible.
Violetta Komissarova, President, Kaluga Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Expanding export opportunities to the South African market.
Victor Mahele, Deputy Director of the Department of Trade and Industry of the Republic of South Africa
(online connection)
Experience of interaction/collaboration with African countries.
Yuri Saprygin, Commercial Director, LLC “Liston”, exporter to 76 countries
Investment opportunities and special economic zones in Tanzania.
Nakadongo Ngomuo, Investment Promotion Manager.
(Online broadcast from the office of the President of Tanzania)
Presentation of investment potential of Kaluga region in the tourism sector.
Polina Kochenkova, Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism of Kaluga Region
African market for Kaluga enterprises. Experience of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of the Kaluga Region.
Roman Potekhin, Executive Director of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of the Kaluga Region.
Subject to be specified
Svetlana Konstantinovna Smirnova, First Deputy Secretary General - Head of the General Secretariat of the Assembly of Peoples of Eurasia, Chairperson of the Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Russia

14:15 – 15:15

Presentation session of companies

From Africa:
SESAME SARL, Mali
Adama Ndiarra, Director of SESAME SARL

KINDAK EDVIS LLC, Cameroon
Ngo Towada Marie Caroline, Director General, KINDAK EDVIS LLC

TEFERET LLC
Teferet Choffa, General Director of TEFERET LLC, President of ACARAD Association

AGRO GROUP (GIA), Côte d'Ivoire
Tro Kelasson, Director General

From Kaluga region:
LLC “TRADE HOUSE ”GEOROST"
Chetokin Yaroslav Andreevich, General Director

LLC “Agrotek”
(to be specified)

15:15 – 15:25

Coffee break
B2B meetings according to individual meeting schedules.

2 part of the business program.

Meeting with Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of African States

14:15

Meeting of Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of African States

Met and accompanied by:
PETRUNIN Andrey Dmitrievich PETRUNIN - founder of “Pandora Trade” LLC
Anna Borisovna KOROLEVA - Acting Minister of Economic Development and Industry of Kaluga Region

14:15 – 15:15

Visit to the Pandora enterprise (excursion)

The excursion is conducted by the founder of Pandora NPO Andrey Petrunin.

*Right: Pandora is a high-tech enterprise located in Kaluga, since 2004 engaged in the development and production of innovative automotive electronics (telemetry systems, car alarms, immobilizers, lighting devices, electric charging stations)
https://alarmtrade.ru/.

15:15 – 15:25

Tea/coffee break

15:25 – 15:30

A video about the Kaluga Region

15:30 – 15:35

Opening remarks by the Deputy Governor of the Kaluga Region
Vladimir Vasilyevich POTEMKIN

15:35 – 15:40

Welcoming remarks by Mr. Georgy Viktorovich KUZNETSOV, Deputy Director of the State Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

15:40 – 15:45

Welcoming remarks by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (upon agreement)
Genet Teshome Girru

15:45 – 15:50

Welcoming speech by Kirill Vladimirovich BABAEV, President of the National Coordination Center for International Business Cooperation

15:50 – 15:55

Welcome address by the President of ANO House of Africa
Serge Fokas ODUNLAMI

15:55 – 16:00

"Welcome Address of the Head of ROSSOTRUDNICHESTVO PRIMAKOV Evgeny Alexandrovich PRIMAKOV
Read by the moderator of the meeting Petrukhin Dmitry

16:00 – 16:10

Presentation of the investment potential of the Kaluga Region
Anna Borisovna KOROLEVA - Acting Minister of Economic Development and Industry of the Kaluga Region

16:10 – 16:20

New Horizons of Cooperation in the Educational Sphere
Maxim Anatolievich KAZAK - Rector of K.E. Tsiolkovsky KSU (by agreement)

16:20 – 16:30

Mutually beneficial cooperation in a multipolar world: exchange of cultural and professional experience between African countries and Russia
LOMAS Ekaterina Alexandrovna - Leading Specialist of Media Relations Department of SEZ “Alabuga”

16:30 – 16:40

Presentation on export of medical services in Kaluga Region
Anna Nikolayevna CHERNOVA CHERNOVA - Minister of Health of Kaluga Region

16:40 – 16:50

Experience of interaction between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Kaluga Region
Abdellatif El Bahraoui - President of the Morocco-Russia Friendship Association

16:50 – 17:00

Signing of the Cooperation Agreement between the Kaluga Regional Clinical Hospital and the Ibn Sina Hospital and University Center of Rabat-Salé-Kenitra Region (a subordinate organization of the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Morocco) (online)

Signatory from the Kaluga Region:
Elena Valentinovna RAZUMEEVA - Chief Physician of the Kaluga Region “Kaluga Regional Clinical Hospital”
Signatory from the Kingdom of Morocco:
MOHSIN Raouf - Professor, Director of the Ibn Sina Hospital and University Center of the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra Region.

16:50 – 17:00

Presentation of certificates of appreciation and awarding of honorary guests

Presentation of certificates of gratitude
to Ambassadors of African countries from the international public foundation “Russian Peace Foundation”:

André Okunlola BIAU Akambi - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Benin to the Russian Federation.
Joseph NKURUNZIZA- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Burundi to the Russian Federation
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Angola to the Russian Federation (representative to be specified)
Genet Teshome GIRRU - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the Russian Federation

Awarding of honored guests:

Tulikunkiko Francois Xavier - Chairman of the Board of the Union of African Diaspora for Truth and Improvement of the Status of People of African Descent “Inganzo Gakondo”, Head of the FAWRIS project - “Forum of African Graduates of Higher Education Institutions of Russia and the Soviet Union”
Kinfu Zenebe Tafesse - Ph.D. in Philosophy, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Unit: Center for Interdisciplinary Studies INNON RAS, Founder and President of the Ethiopian Community Association in the Russian Federation
Odunlami Serge Fokas - President of ANO “Africa House”, Chairman of the Business Club "Africa Calling! "Chairman of the Africa Calling! Business Club, Head of the Committee for Interaction with African Countries.

Awarded by Violetta Medvedeva - Chairperson of the Board of the Moscow Regional Branch.

12 July 2025

V International Festival of African Culture AFROFEST 2025

Access to the festival depends on your format of participation in the Forum on 11 July.
For full-time Forum participants:
You are entitled to a full-day visit to the AFROFEST festival. You will be fully immersed in the atmosphere of African culture: music, dance, fair, national cuisine and an unforgettable concert programme throughout the day.
For online participants of the Forum:
An exclusive online broadcast of the evening concert programme of the festival will be organised for you. The broadcast will start at 18:00 (Moscow time).
For more information about AFROFEST 2025, please visit www.afrofest.ru.

12:00

Grand opening

A bright dance flash mob from the Innovative Ballet Theatre is waiting for you! Let's set the rhythm of the day together!

12:00 – 18:00

Main Stage

DJ sets from DJ Medun
The music vibes of Africa all day long.

18:00 – 21:00

Main Stage

Big evening concert
A real kaleidoscope of talents!

12:30 – 13:10

Travelling in Africa: personal experience of a naturalist-ethnographer photographer

Speaker: Elena Bobrova
Location: winter amphitheatre

13:30 – 14:10

The Colours of Africa: the story of 5 journeys and one book

Speaker: Elena Azores
Location: Winter Amphitheatre

14:30 – 15:10

Ethiopia is the cradle of humanity

Speaker: Kinfu Zenebe Tafesse
Location: Winter Amphitheatre

15:30 – 16:10

Tourism in Africa: myths and reality

Speaker: Kilimanjaro Travel Agency
Location: Winter Amphitheatre

16:30 – 17:10

Swahili language masterclass

Speaker: Sevgi Akhmedova
Location: Winter Amphitheatre

13:00 – 18:00

Creative masterclasses (art zone)

Mask Painting (Collage Art School)
African Ornaments (Louis Premier)
Banner Colouring Book ‘Africa’

13:00 – 18:00

Creative masterclasses (crafts zone)

Creating a brooch ‘Lion’ (Olga Marchenko)
Master class on ceramics (Karina Saitova)
Postcards ‘Animals of Africa’ (Marina)
Making postcards in African style (Her Voice Foundation)
Weaving bracelets from beads in AFRICA style (‘Everyone is important’).

13:00 – 18:00

Awale board game masterclass

Presenter: Ulrich Allossou

12:00 – 21:00

Exhibitions and art spaces

Exhibition of paintings, masks and sculptures ART space
Location: Kovorking.

Street photo exhibition
Authors: Elena Azoresh, Elena Bobkova

Photo exhibition ‘Our Friend South Africa’
Location: Indoor space of IECC.

Exhibition of paintings by artists
Location: Inner space of IEC
Participants: Irina Ivashkina, Goli Roger, Anna Mitrofanova, Fofa

12:00 – 18:00

Exhibitions and art spaces

Exposition and master class ‘African Women’ by Veronica
Location: Indoor space of the Information Centre

14:00 – 15:30

Big fashion show

Immerse yourself in the world of African fashion! Their collections will be presented by:

Ketty Ange
Teferet
Natalia Vasyuta (children's dresses)
Collection of coffee bags from Marina
Patricia Ouli
And many others!

Location: Transformer Hall

12:00 – 17:00

Beauty-zone

African Animals" aquagrim
African braids plaiting
Henna painting (mehendi)
Afrogrim

Location: Courtyard (lawn)

13:00 – 17:00

Dance masterclasses

Abel Ngolami
Pedro
Dancing Côte d'Ivoire
Christine Sobol

13:00 – 18:00

Games, dances, shows

Games and dances with Uncle Fedor
Location: Courtyard, lawn

Circus show
Location: Courtyard, lawn

15:00 – 18:00

Games, dances, shows

Interactive drum show by Jaga
Location: Courtyard, lawn area

12:00 – 21:00

Afromarket and food court

Market
Unique clothes, handmade jewellery, author's ceramics, souvenirs, incense, cosmetics, sweets and much more from the best artisans and brands.

Food court area
Taste authentic African dishes and popular street food.

12:00 – 18:00

Tastings

Tasting of exotic fruits
Location: Wardrobe

12:00 – 21:00

Embassy stands

Learn about the culture and traditions of Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Kenya, Mali, Ethiopia, Namibia, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal at the official stands of the embassies of these countries.