At the same time, the USSR provided Somalia with a loan of $32 million to modernize and increase the size of the Somali National Army.

[3] Barre subsequently expelled all Soviet advisers, and personally switched allegiance from the Eastern Bloc to the West, particularly the United States.

[6] Currently, Russian-Somali relations are at a very low level, with Russia having sent humanitarian aid to Somalia several times.

[8] On 19 April 2016, Somali Prime Minister Omar Sharmarke held a bilateral meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, where he requested Russian assistance to strengthen the Somali Armed Forces in the fight against terrorist organization Al-Shabaab.

[2] In January 2018, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich met with Hassan Ali Khaire within the framework of the Davos Economic Forum.