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March 12-17 Public Diplomacy Review
Abbreviated edition"If you are not doing good public diplomacy in this town you are dead."--The reaction of Australian ambassador Kim Beazley upon learning that the Melbourne Theatre Company was...
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March 18 Public Diplomacy Review
Abbreviated edition“it’s what Carl Bildt does.“--A definition of public diplomacy or people’s diplomacy at a seminar chaired by Jon Worth, communication consultant in Brussels; image from; on Bildt,...
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March 19 Public Diplomacy Review
Abbreviated Edition“The situation in Ukraine continues to develop. Vladimir Putin signed a treaty this morning that formally absorbs Crimea into the Russian Federation. So if you felt bad because you...
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Public Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon: Korea
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/people/2014/03/178_153804.html'All that Korea' needs to be promotedHahn Choong-heeBy Chung Min-uckThanks to the rapid economic growth in the 1970s and 80s,...
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Russia’s Propagandist-In-Chief Went On A Junket To Meet U.S. Security Officials
A pedantic note from JB: The ex-U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, a professor of political science at Stanford University, is butchering the Russian language by not using the dative case in...
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Tsar Vladimir's Masks in Ukraine
--Image from, with caption: We Russian liberators are so popular we have to wear masks so people won’t kiss us.Regarding the Oprichnina during Ivan the Terrible's reign:"Thus," commented a Livonian...
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March 20-22 Public Diplomacy Review
-From: Max Seddon, "Russia’s Propagandist-In-Chief Went On A Junket To Meet U.S. Security Officials," BuzzFeed; via IL; see alsoPUBLIC DIPLOMACYDid the Obama administration enable the invasion of...
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Pertains to the Failure of U.S. Public Diplomacy: Blast from the Past in...
Blast from the Past in these times of tense U.S.-Russian relations:"10 Percent Intellectual": The Mind of Condoleezza...
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March 23-24 Public Diplomacy Review
"Communications andpublic diplomacy is [sic] more important than ever before."--Brzezinski, "Diplomacy in a new Communications Era: U.S. Embassy ranked #3 'super communicator' in all of Sweden,"...
View ArticleRegarding a U.S. Public Diplomacy Officer reciting a Pushkin Poem in Baghdad
From:Monday Inbox: US Embassy Baghdad’s Conrad Turner Recites a Russian Poem, And ….– Domani Spero, DiploPunditThe video [see] was published by U.S. Embassy Baghdad on March 4, 2014 on YouTube. The...
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An article written by someone who, evidently, has never practiced Public...
http://diplomaticourier.com/news/topics/diplomacy/2118-towards-a-smarter-public-diplomacyTOWARDS A SMARTER PUBLIC DIPLOMACYMar 20, 2014Written by Guy J. Golan, Guest Contributorfont size Print...
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March 25 Public Diplomacy Review
"CAT"--The Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team; cited in Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura, "Secret Service agents on Obama detail sent home from Netherlands after night of drinking," Washington...
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Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
Friends, No matter your political views, may I suggest that the below article provides indirect insights why Putin and his entourage view the recent events in Ukraine as an American plot and how they...
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March 26 Public Diplomacy Review
"The king, he soaked his arrows truein poison, and beyond the plainsdispatched those messengers and slewhis neighbors in their own domains."--From a poem by Aleksandr Pushkin recited in Russian by the...
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The Empire Strikes Back: Anti-American Sanctions Announced in Russia
Via JD; link to below article at; English translation at Наш ответ на санкции. Америка, опомнисьxs17 wrote in vvv_igMarch 20th, 14:37Жители России возмущены людоедскими санкциями, наложенными на них...
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March 27 Public Diplomacy Review
“Putin apparently doesn’t use the Internet because he is afraid of being tracked by foreign governments and 'cause any time he needs to know something, he can just ask Edward Snowden.”--Talk show host...
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An American epidemic: The vocal fry zone
See the video on this vocal abomination (thanks JD)For the videos mentioned in this article, see the below linkWednesday, November 14, 2012 - Pages and Stages by Frances PonickFrances PonickAsk me a...
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Evil "high-culture" American influence extended to Odessa ...
Оркестр Хобарта Эрла, [in English] Одесса Привоз флешмоб 22.03.2014 [link provides English-language background]Play videoНациональный оркестр Одесской филармонии исполнил на Привозе классическую «Оду к...
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Under Russian Eyes: A Critical View of Ukrainian History Textbooks
See: Ukrainian lessons: they teach students in Ukrainian history textbooks? Among the illustrations in the article:
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Why is the United States Broke? The below provides one answer.
Barack Obama's first visit to Brussels to cost Belgium more than €10mObama will arrive with 900-strong entourage, including 45 vehicles and three planes, and attend EU and Nato...
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