Blog of Larisa Permyakova

Larisa Permyakova

Innovative diplomacy, international cooperation, information and communication technologies in international relations

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January 26, 2014

The state of e-diplomacy today Today, diplomats use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and country-specific social media networks such as Russia’s VKontakte or China’s Weibo. Eighty-two foreign ministries currently have Twitter accounts, and 47…

December 3, 2013

Peter Van Buren, a U.S. State Department official with 24 years of experience, describes in his book We Meant Well:  How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People the types of public diplomacy projects carried out by the…

November 4, 2013

Is there anything common between Rassvet [1] township in Tula Region (Russia) and Houston city, Texas (USA)? In fact not much, but if you would look closer, you could have found that Rassvet was a home for a JSC "Krasnobor" a poultry farm…