This case has damaged prospects for improved Russia-US relations. What has been gained from it by the US Government? Nothing
The ... ... arrested in the US on 15 July , one day before the Helsinki Summit began, under accusations that she was a Russian agent, had been detained on ‘fabricated charges’... ... victim of this blatant outrage ...”.
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Pavel Koshkin:
Five Challenges for Modern Public Diplomacy and How to Tackle Them
On 10 December,
news broke dramatically in...
... the U.S. didn’t trust him, while Putin himself
firmly believed that
America tried to interfere into the 2011–2012 Russian parliamentary and presidential elections.
Amidst this background, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which contributed to the public diplomacy efforts in the world, left Russia in September 2012. There was no unanimity about the real reasons of USAID stopping its activity in Russia. While the U.S.
argues that
the Kremlin demanded to shut down the USAID programs in Russia, the Russian side
claims that
the Agency cut ...
The arrest of Russian national Maria Butina in Washington is a significant blow for Russia–U.S. relations
The arrest of Russian national Maria Butina in Washington is a significant blow for Russia–U.S. relations. It goes well beyond official diplomacy. The Americans ...
... Brexiteers in Great Britain too.
Just ask new Tory foreign secretary and super Toff, Boris Johnson, who just last year (born in the USA, BoJo was a dual national) renounced his US citizenship in an unsuccessful attempt to become Prime Minister.
But is all this ... ... Superman, Batman and Jason Bourne represent truth, justice and the American Way, to more and more young Americans, Washington public diplomacy assets have tagged Russian president Vladimir Putin as the leader of a plot to use Brexit as a tool to destabilize the EU.
The Express in London ...
... to hockey, sports became a vehicle for the nuclear superpowers to project hegemony without casus belli before the concepts of public diplomacy and its adjunct sports diplomacy came on the scene during the early 1960s. That’s the way it was when the ... ... exponentially. In 1989 CBS paid $300 million to acquire the rights to televise the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Today, Russians, Czechs and Finns are stars in the National Hockey League (NHL). Vladislav Tretyak, one of the most admired hockey players ...
... Kochavi made "miscalculations".
Bandar had sealed his fate last year during his secret visit outside Moscow with Russian president Vladimir Putin. He bragged that Riyadh controlled Chechen extremists in Russia, and that he would unleash them ... ... product known as smart power- sending the entire process back to square one.
Billions of dollars are spent annually, and thousands of jobs are created in government and the private sector by all major actors. Yet there seems to be an inability to act ...
... rules of Cold War engagement on both sides.
In February U.S. president Barack Obama named a new undersecretary of state for public diplomacy Richard Stengel, a former managing editor of Time magazine.
Since that time, the tenor of U.S. public diplomacy,... ... tone in an effort to energize president Obama’s base and contain and counter what Washington and its NATO allies view as Russia reverting to a policy of Soviet-era expansionism.
A replay of Kennan’s Cold War tactics of economic and political ...