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 ...
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- 09.11.2015 01:52:00
... 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 ...
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- 19.02.2015 07:03:00
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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- 26.01.2014 19:39:00