Online Seminar “The Situation in Sudan: A Brief Historical and Political Analysis”

On April 16, 2023, the School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University within the framework of the permanent online seminars «Contemporary Area Studies», with the support of the Joint Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Middle East Association, and the Middle East Club of the Lomonosov Moscow State University organized the 66th online seminar with a researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE University Grigory Lukyanov.

In the first part of his lecture Grigory Lukyanov drew attention to the history of the political development of Sudan and the various military coups from 1956 to the current period. In the second part of his lecture, he analyzed the current balance of political powers and the causes of the current conflict in the country. In the final part of his lecture G. Lukyanov answered the questions of the participants of the online seminar.