The far abroad offers future security for the Kremlin and other oligarchs

Russias recent advance into energy plays across Africa has raised the spectre of a new Great Game led by the Kremlins favoured Gazprom in competition with major western players. But African Energys analysis of recent Russian business in Africa suggests the picture is more complex, with a hard business dynamic running parallel to a state-directed geopolitical strategy, write Eleanor Gillespie, John Hamilton and Jon Marks.