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Think-Tanks Do the Things Diplomats Cannot Do

... diplomatic sphere for a long time. So has the job itself changed throughout the years? RIAC and EastWest Institute seminar “Russia-US Cooperation to Combat Cybercrime and Protect Critical Infrastructure” Yes, it has. I think we can now speak of a “new diplomacy.” And the new diplomacy gets further away from what I learned more than thirty years ago — we were taught traditional Westphalian diplomacy, the diplomacy of state-to-state interaction. It still happens, it’s still important, but there ...

04.10.2017

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Pavel Palazhchenko on Diplomatic Interpreting

How and why did you decide to become an interpreter? One usually decides what one wants to be and what profession to follow in eighth or ninth grade at school. This was my case. I went to an ordinary school and my first English teacher was my mother (she taught English at school). But I was not really in for languages until my sixth or maybe even seventh school year. It came to me later, but it was serious and when the time came to apply for college, I chose the Foreign Languages Institute (Inyaz)...

26.12.2014

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Poll conducted

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%)