Seven Steps Beyond the Crisis Horizon: Reflecting on Past Mistakes

... forward in July 2019 on developing contacts with foreign and international organizations and bringing in foreign citizens) clearly hinder our ability to improve work in this area, rather than help it. 6. What changes are needed in the mechanisms of using soft power? 2015 : It sometimes appears that with regard to "soft power," we are moving not forward, but back to the tried and familiar, although archaic and often openly counterproductive, patterns of Soviet times. The question arises about ...