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April 10 Public Diplomacy Review
"these days known as public diplomacy"--Propaganda, according to Robert Dujarric, Director, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan; image from"Whereas the U.S. perspective may...
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Кто прогнал посла США из России: video on "The McFaul epoch" in Moscow
Video on "The McFaul epoch" in Moscow: Cold War propaganda is back -- enjoy!See also:American Conservative:Obama’s Circle of Bad AdviceActivist experts make bad ambassadors, especially when diplomacy...
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МИД России рекомендовал гражданам не ездить за границу
МИД России рекомендовал гражданам не ездить за границуBBCRussian.comСЕГОДНЯ, 03:45МирПолитика71307117Фото: РИА НовостиМИД России «настоятельно рекомендует» российским гражданам не выезжать за границу...
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Post-Ambassadorial Speaker's fee: $15,001 – $25,000
http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerID=8663&linksrc=cf; obtained via FacebookTravels From: CaliforniaFee: 4Ways to ConnectJoint PresentationKeynote AddressPanelMichael...
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The seductive allure of wars we’re not winning
Andrew J. Bacevich, Washington PostJB note: What Bacevich says about the troops could be applied to the obligatory and not always justified self-congratulations not absent among former State Department...
View ArticleCoke vs. Kefir; McDonald's vs. Black Bread
As I reflect (too strong a word, for a former State Department functionary concerned where the Congressman would get through customs at Sheremetevo airport) upon the sad state of Russian-American...
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April 11 Public Diplomacy Review
"We recall the time at school when our treasured anthology of love poetry was seized by the class bully. We tried to snatch it back and failed. Dusting ourselves off, we shouted into the face of our...
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Condoleezza Rice Hiring Highlights Reasons to Drop Dropbox
See also John Brown, "Ten Percent Intellectual: The Mind of Condoleezza Rice."The below from; see alsoCondoleezza Rice Hiring Highlights Reasons to Drop DropboxDropbox | Zachary FreemanPosted On April...
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Public Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon: China
fromSat,Apr 12,2014Languages Chinese Japanese French Spanish Russian Arabic Korean German 1 2 3 4 5 6...
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April 12 Public Diplomacy Review
Academics are extremely privileged. They are paid to think and to express their ideas--it's incredible." Image from--Molly Bettie, writing in her blog, "Public Diplomacy and Student Exchanges: Possibly...
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Public Relations and Public Diplomacy: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
From EtiquipediaEtiquette, Public Relations and Public DiplomacyPublic Relations and Public Diplomacy: Two Sides of the Same Coin?The Roman legionary: "adaptable at any place, at any time, for any...
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Did Vladimir Putin call the breakup of the USSR 'the greatest geopolitical...
FromHomeThe PunditFact Truth-O-MeterArticlesPeopleTV RadioBloggersNewspapersContact UsThe Truth-O-Meter Says:Says Vladimir Putin once said, "The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest...
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Revised piece: A final nail in the USSR coffin? Thank you from NATO, Vladimir...
Life and a CoffinRussian president (for life?) Vladimir Putin, perhaps unknowingly, is putting a final nail in the coffin of the performer (artist is too strong a word) formerly known as the Soviet...
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April 13 Public Diplomacy Review
"One cannot match the kind of money and effort in a closed society that Russia is putting into this, but we can certainly help our friends and partners debunk lies, get the straight story out. So we...
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Russia's New Culture War
From The Moscow Times; via MB and MT on FacebookRussia's New Culture WarBy John FreedmanApr. 13 2014 21:55Last edited 21:56John FreedmanA 1928 issue of Contemporary Theater magazine calls for cultural...
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State Department Spending $400,000 on a Camel Statue in Pakistan
From Reason MagazineState Department Spending $400,000 on a Camel Statue in PakistanZenon Evans|Mar. 31, 2014 3:39 pmEmailBeyer ProjectsThe State Department sure is in anguish from "deep" budget cuts...
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April 14 Public Diplomacy Review
"persuasion, intimidation, deceit, corruption, penetration, subversion, horse-trading, bluffing, psychological pressure, economic pressure, seduction, blackmail, theft, rape, battle, murder, and sudden...
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Image from Ukraine (Slaviansk)
Straight out of post-apocalypse movie ...From, via NR on Facebook
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Theater of the Absurb: Recent pieces, under Questioning Russophile eyes, on...
1. A Final Nail in the USSR Coffin? Thank You From NATO, Vladimir Vladimirovich! Posted April 14, 2014 | 12:11 PM (Huffington Post)Life and a CoffinRussian president (for life?) Vladimir Putin, perhaps...
View ArticleNotes for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United"
Last summer, Vladimir Putin wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in which he said that it was dangerous – in fact, he said it was extremely dangerous for any people to think of themselves as...
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