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Sep 27, 2007

TRUCKS' MARKETS

* Nigeria - Russia worries Western "propaganda" scares Africa off from trade opportunities

Nigeria -African News Services/Trade Africa, by Chido Makunike -September 26, 2007: -- Russia's truck manufacturers say they're ready to do more business in Africa but their country's image problem may be getting in the way... "I am not sure that Africa pays enough attention to Russia," says Professor Vladimir Shubin, deputy director of the Moscow-based Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute for African Studies. "I think a good reason for that is the influence of Western propaganda based on events in Russia linked to Chechnya and the mafia, doing its best to portray Moscow as the backyard of Europe... From Angola to Tunisia, KAMAZ has been exporting trucks to more than a dozen African countries since the 1980s with growing potential in other regional markets...

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