Quite the discreet diplomat, Anna Ratchina Coulibaly tends to keep her head down in Ouagadougou, only appearing in public to make the occasional large donation to the World Food Programme on behalf of Russia, which has no embassy or permanent representatives in Burkina Faso. Ratchina Coulibaly has served as the Russian Federation's honorary consul for the past 17 years, having settled in Ouagadougou in 1975 after meeting her Burkinabe husband at Sochi University. A trained linguist, Ratchina Coulibaly