Activity of Embassy


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STATE RECEPTION AT THE ANGOLAN EMBASSY
DEVOTED TO CELEBRATION OF THE NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY

14 November 2003

Photoalbum.



1. Gen. Roberto L.R. Monteiro "Ngongo" (left) and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Alexander Makarenko, the head of the Foreign Ministry’s African department.


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.


6. Ambassador of Gabon and Dean of the African diplomatic corps in Russia Benjamin Legnongo-Ndumba (left) and Ambassador of Congo Jean-Pierre Luebo.


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.


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.


12. Soobschenie magazine Editor-in-Chief Dmitri Petrov (right) will interview Gen. Ngongo, the hero of the national liberation fight in Angola .


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).


14. Igor Sidorenko, a.k.a Igor Sid, the Russo-African Business Council (RADS) executive officer and editor of Africana.ru, an African internet news server, and Angolan Minister-Counsellor Ange E. Mengowako.


15. Research Fellows at the Institute of Africa Lyubov Prokopenko and Andrei Tokarev, Angolan Minister-Counsellor Ange E. Mengowako.

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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


36. Angolans and Russians fought side by side for Angolan independence .


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

 

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Embassy of Republic of Angola, 2003