| STATE RECEPTION AT
THE ANGOLAN EMBASSY
DEVOTED TO CELEBRATION OF THE NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY
14 November 2003
Photoalbum.
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1. Gen. Roberto L.R. Monteiro "Ngongo"
(left) and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Alexander
Makarenko, the head of the Foreign Ministry’s African department.
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2. Gen. Ngongo and the embassy’s staff (Filomeno Adriano and Antonio
F. Kiteke) welcoming visitors of the state reception. |

3. Ambassador of Mali, Div. Gen. Brekhima S. Traore (left) and
Ambassador of Cameroon Andre Ngongang Ouandji. |

4. Left to right: Ambassador of SAR Mochubela J. Seku, Angolan
Ambassador Gen. Ngongo, Ambassador of Guinea-Bissau Rogerio Herbert. |

5. Angolan Cultural and Press Attache Cristovao Antonio “To” Bragansa
(left) and Minister-Counsellor Ange Eduardo Mengowako.
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6. Ambassador of Gabon and Dean of the African diplomatic corps
in Russia Benjamin Legnongo-Ndumba (left) and Ambassador of Congo
Jean-Pierre Luebo.
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7. Among the embassy’s special guests are prominent Angolan journalists
participating in the festivities. Left to right: Mesies Constantino,
Mario Paiva and Jose Cortes. |

8. Alexander Makarenko, the head of the
Foreign Ministry’s African department (left) and Ambassador of
Madagascar Elois Maxim Dovo. |

9. Ethiopian Ambassador Gen. Asamineu Bedanie Aregie, expert with
the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Irina Ruzankina and
the embassy’s linguist Irina Arkhipova.
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10. Ambassador of Sierra-Leone Melrose Beyo Kai-Banya and his
SAR counterpart M.J. Seku. |

11. Angolan Cultural and Press Attache Cristovao Antonio “To”
Bragansa (left), Military Attache Col. Luis Inacio Muxito and
Angolan war veteran Vadim Sagachko, the Chairman of the International
Association of Soldiers-Participants in International Conflicts.
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12. Soobschenie
magazine Editor-in-Chief Dmitri Petrov (right) will
interview Gen. Ngongo, the hero of the national liberation fight
in Angola .
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13. Guinean Ambassador Amara Bangoura and his Tanzanian counterpart
Patrick S. Chokala, the Chairman of the SADC Ambassadors’ Committee
(left). Ambassador of SAR M.J. Seku (right).
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15. Research Fellows at the Institute of Africa Lyubov Prokopenko
and Andrei Tokarev, Angolan Minister-Counsellor Ange E. Mengowako.
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16. Left to right: Alexei Putyatin, the expert with the Russo-African
Business Council and correspondent of the Portuguese desk of the
Voice of Russia radio station, Ambassador of Guinea-Bissau Rogerio
Herbert, and Edoardo Gedes, the correspondent of the Portuguese
Jornal Di Noticias . |

17. Fellow at the Centre for African Studies Lev Rytov, Deputy Director
of the Institute of Asian and African Countries Leonid Geveling,
Fellow at the Institute of Africa Mikhail Vishnevsky.
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19. Gen. Ngongo conversing with Angolan correspondent Jose Cortes. |

20. Assistant Military Attache Capt. Pascoal Alves de Carvalho,
Member of the embassy’s Political Section Narsiso Zela, 1st Secretary
Samuel da Cunha Ferreira.
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22. Member of the Board of the Angolan Friendship and Co-operation
Foundation Viktor Selin and Cultural and Press Section Assistant
Oscar Henri Escobar. |

23. The embassy’s Cultural and Press Section Assistant Svetlana
Smirnova (left) and linguist Irina Arkhipova.
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24. Ambassador of Chad Djibrine Abdoul (right) and his Guinean
counterpart Amara Bangoura. |

25. Angolan Cultural and Press Attache Cristovao Antonio “To” Bragansa
(right) conversing with the 2nd Secretary Celestino C. Fernandes. |

26. Angolan Minister-Counsellor Ange E. Mengowako and Ambassador
of Guinea-Bissau Rogerio Herbert. |

27. Member of the embassy’s Protocol Section Castigo Levita (left),
Assistant Military Attache Capt. Pascoal Alves de Carvalho.
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28. Eritrean Ambassador Teklay Minassie Asgedom (right). |

29. Ambassador of SAR M.J. Seku and Angolan Minister-Counsellor
Ange E. Mengowako conversing with Angolan journalist Mario Paiva
(right). |

30. Representatives of the Metis foundation and Cristovao A. “To”
Bragansa.
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31. Namibian Ambassador Marten N. Kapewasha with the spouse (right)
and the SAR ambassador’s spouse. |

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33. Soobschenie
magazine Editor-in-Chief Dmitri Petrov and the Cuban
Ambassador with the spouse.
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34. Left to right: the secretary of the Angolan Friendship and
Co-operation Foundation; the embassy’s Cultural and Press Section
Assistant Svetlana Smirnova and Press Attache of the Russian embassy
to Portugal Darya Petrova. |

35. Photo opportunity: Vneshtorgbank employees and the Angolan
ambassador against the bust of the first president of Angola and
the great African poet Agostinho Neto.
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36. Angolans and Russians fought side by side for Angolan independence
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37. Angolan Ambassador Gen. Roberto L.R. Monteiro "Ngongo"
with spouse Palmira Monteiro. |

38. Angolan journalist Mesies Constantino (right) and the secretary
of the Angolan Friendship and Co-operation Foundation. |

39. V. Sagachko, L. Prokopenko, A. Tokarev. |

40. Photo opportunity. |
Photos of Igor
Sid |