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South Sudan and Russia agreed to expand energy cooperation, including in the oil sector, during a meeting of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow. South Sudan, an oil producer in Africa, has several foreign firms, including Russian ones, operating in its oil industry.   In recent months, however, South Sudan has felt the impact of the civil war in Sudan, from which it seceded in 2011. During a meeting with South Sudan’s President Kiir, Putin said, as carried by the Kremlin, “We…