Supporting Compatriots Abroad: Failures and Accomplishments

... the post-Soviet space, including translators, linguists and social scientists. Its soft power policy requires sociologists and political scientists with excellent understanding... ... grants. Of course, this contingent requires individual approach, whereas Russian immigration policy lacks mechanisms for assessment, identification or attraction of such... ... specialists. * * * Although the USSR broke up more than 20 years ago, Russia's policy toward compatriots residing in ex-Soviet republics is far from finalized. Moscow is still searching...