Five Challenges for Modern Public Diplomacy and How to Tackle Them

... activity in Russia. While the U.S. argues that the Kremlin demanded to shut down the USAID programs in Russia, the Russian side claims that the Agency cut its presence... ... President Putin adopted a series of laws, which were met with harsh criticism in the West: the Dima Yakovlev law that bans American families from adopting Russian orphans;... ... unfavorable environment for Russian and foreign NGOs; the law that forbids the homosexuality propaganda and so on. The strongest blow on public diplomacy came from the authors of...