It’s not long since Russia emerged from the stone age of public diplomacy.
But its evolution has been so aggressive that EU capitals are preparing to take counter-meaures in an atmosphere of growing alarm.\n \nRewind to 2005, and Russia’s EU embassy in Brussels, for instance, had just 20 staff, few of whom spoke English. Its ambassador, Mikhail Fradkov, a grumpy apparatchik, hid from press. Getting a Russian line on anything was all but impossible.
His successor, Vladimir Chizho...
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Already a member? Login hereAndrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.