Mikhail Shvydkoy: We are not heirs of “Tolstoyevsky”

... of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation and RIAC member told Mariya Smekalova about interest for Russian culture abroad, shared what Russia has to offer to the world and explained the main difficulties of modern art promotion. You ... ... uses its potential to spread its foreign policy influence through culture? In general, I don’t like the expression “soft power.” I’ll tell you why. It’s either force, and then it is not soft. You can’t win love by force....