The Russian Foreign Ministry expands its digital diplomacy toolbox, the most recent example being the mass-messaging of information about the evacuation from Egypt to Russian tourists on VKontakte (or VK), Russia’s most popular social network, due to the flight suspension ordered on November ...
... diplomats trained in the tradition of [the head of early Soviet foreign policy, Georgy] Chicherin to master new technologies.” The use of social networking websites, blogs and other internet services by diplomats in foreign policy-related work is called digital diplomacy. A couple of years ago, when diplomats were only trying to make friends with the internet audience, the efficiency and appropriateness of such experiments was often questioned – largely because of the conservatism of the diplomatic ...
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 ministers of foreign affairs are personally on Twitter. The two most popular foreign ministers on Twitter are Abdullah bin Zayed (@ABZayed) of the United Arab Emirates and Turkey’s Ahmet Davutoğlu (@Ahmet_Davutoglu) – each with more than 400...
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