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Innovative diplomacy, international cooperation, information and communication technologies in international relations
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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…
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…
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 that came to…
Poll conducted
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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements 33 (31%) U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity 30 (28%) U.S. wants to dissolve Russia 24 (22%) U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China 21 (19%)