Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki breaks out of his diplomatic isolation. He who in recent years rarely left his country began this Tuesday, May 30 a four-day visit to Russia.
This new official trip comes two weeks after a high-profile visit to China, marking Eritrea's alignment in the anti-Western diplomatic camp. The Abyssinian ancestry of the Russian poet Pushkin, whose statue was erected in 2009 in a square in the Eritrean capital, will be evoked in Moscow.