In the absence of other achievements, Poland touts the seizure of the school as a “victory” over Russia
On the eve of the May holidays, the Polish authorities
seized
the building housing the Russian Embassy school, which ... ... progress in the negotiations, and Poland preferred to resolve the controversial embassy property issue by force rather than diplomacy.
Over the past year, there have been more exotic violations of the existing diplomatic practices. For example, during ...
... history would agree that Churchill wasn’t interested in doing it, because Churchill thought that Hitler would ultimately go for Russia because as per him, Hitler’s principal target was Russia. The French also condescended to that view. If at that time ... ... "West" and the "East" diplomatically? What can sovereign nations do and what tools are available? Public diplomacy, second track diplomacy…?
I practiced public diplomacy. It’s not a question of belief or faith. We must understand ...
... Libya 2011 and 2015, and Syria 2014-2015. This litany of American interference makes Russia’s occasional bouts of self-defense look like a Girl Guides’ tea-party on... ... the British Prime Minister, Cameron, referring in Parliament to Britain’s ‘broken society’, when in 2011 he also criticized parents for lack of control over their children... ... latest of several rather fatuous fashions. The truth is that diversity is irrelevant to diplomacy. No foreigner I have ever met cares whether the Service has fifty per cent...
Today, the Russian society is in a state of extreme excitement and even exaltation. But public sentiments can and should be managed
The interim results of the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul unsurprisingly produced a surge of optimism among all those in Moscow who consider diplomacy the main tool for achieving peace and solving the “Ukrainian issue”. Within the expert community, they
started exploring
the prospects for an early Putin-Zelensky meeting, trying to envisage appropriate mechanisms for multilateral security ...
