Moscow and Addis Ababa are working on the construction of an aluminum plant in Ethiopia. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Evgeny Terekhin, in an interview with TASS. "We also associate the qualitative leap in trade turnover with the implementation of major investment projects. In particular, at the meeting of the bilateral Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation and Trade in November 2025, documents were signed on the cooperation of OJSC "Rusal" and the Ethiopian Investment Holding, providing for the development of the construction of an aluminum plant," he said. Answering the question whether there is a target indicator for the growth of bilateral trade turnover that the governments of Russia and Ethiopia are aiming for, the ambassador noted that the countries do not set strict planned figures, however, the dynamics of recent times speak for themselves: in 2025, the volume of mutual trade increased almost threefold ...