Russia has expressed readiness to support African countries in calculating the total amount of reparations that Western nations could pay for crimes committed during the colonial period.<\/p>\n
The position was outlined on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, by\u00a0Irina Abramova<\/span><\/span>, Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, during a press conference on the theme\u00a0\u201cThe Responsibility of Western Metropolises for the Consequences of Colonisation: History and Modernity,\u201d<\/em> according to the African Initiative media agency.<\/p>\n Her remarks come in the wake of growing global momentum for reparatory justice, following the backing of 123 nations for a motion at the United Nations to recognise the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as the gravest crime ever committed against humanity.<\/p>\n The motion was tabled at the UN General Assembly by\u00a0John Dramani Mahama<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n Madam Abramova explained that Russia intends to collaborate with African experts to build a strong, evidence-based case for reparations using modern analytical tools.<\/p>\n \u201cWe aim to unite the efforts of Russian scholars \u2013 mathematicians, programmers, historians, and economists \u2013 with African researchers in order to jointly substantiate the scale of these reparations and move forward with legal claims on various international platforms,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n She stressed that African countries must accurately quantify the damage caused by colonialism to strengthen their claims for compensation, noting that this would involve modern scientific methods alongside extensive colonial-era archives preserved across the continent.<\/p>\n Abramova further clarified that while Russia is offering support, it is not the originator of the reparations agenda, maintaining that African challenges should primarily be addressed by Africans themselves.<\/p>\n\n