The Russian government has provided emergency aid to Zimbabwe.

   The Russian government has decided to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to Zimbabwe, reported on 27 February at the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The first batch of food, as the transmit FM, was delivered in the Zimbabwe capital of Harare on 25 February. Products were in the presence of Zimbabwean officials to local office, UN World Food Program.
How much funding is planned to spend on the assistance of Zimbabwe, reported the Foreign Ministry did not say.
Currently, Zimbabwe is in crisis. As the RIA Novosti with reference to the Central Statistical Office of the country, as of July 2008, inflation in the country amounted to 231 million percent a year. According to various data, from 80 to 94 percent of Zimbabweans are unemployed. In addition, the country recorded an epidemic of cholera.
The main cause of the crisis in Zimbabwe, experts say imprudent policies of the authorities, in particular, initiated in 2000, the land reform. Reformers have decided to allocate plots of white farmers to indigenous populations. Now 80 percent of land transferred to indigenous Zimbabweans, abandoned.
In spring 2008, the economic crisis in Zimbabwe, added a political one. The opposition and supporters of President Robert Mugabe, who governs the country since 1988, several months arguing about the results of the next elections. Opposition claimed that they gained more votes a candidate Morgan Tsvangirai, and Mugabe's supporters say that no one has received a decisive advantage. As a result, summer Tsvangirai was forced to refuse to participate in the second round of elections, and re-appointed by President Mugabe. Tsvangirai became prime minister.