Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan begins a three-day state visit to Russia on Wednesday and is due to meet her counterpart Vladimir Putin.
She brings a business delegation to Moscow hoping to cement deals in trade, tourism and minerals during the first state visit to Russia by a Tanzanian president since the country's founding father, Julius Nyerere, travelled there in October 1969.
Putin was one of the first to congratulate Hassan for winning 98 percent of the vote in elections held in October 2025.
Relations have been warming since. A Russia-Tanzania Business Council was created in January and last month Air Tanzania announced the launch of flights from Dar es Salaam to Moscow by the end of the year.
Trade between the two countries currently stands at just over $307 million annually and the only concrete joint project is a planned uranium mine that has been on the drawing board for more than a decade.
