Overview
- The 'TASS — Africa: Path of Friendship' press tour runs November 16–24 across Moscow, Kazan and St. Petersburg with journalists from 10 French-speaking African countries.
- TASS Director General Andrey Kondrashov urged African and Russian outlets to cooperate directly without Western intermediaries.
- The agency offered its news feeds in English, French and Arabic free of charge to potential African partners and proposed formal news-exchange agreements.
- African agencies were invited to join the Global Fact-Checking Network with access to an AI-based 'smart browser' developed with ANO Dialog for verifying false claims.
- TASS outlined intentions to reopen correspondent offices across African countries, describing the goal as a gradual return to a Soviet-era level of on-the-ground presence.