Who are the most important names in Russian soft power in Italy
The article by Giuseppe Gagliano
Who are the most important names in Russian soft power in Italy?
That modern institutions have a broad and widespread political and cultural influence, that is, they implement their soft power, through certain institutions is an established fact: China through the Confucius Institutes, the United States through the Freedom House or the Ned .
Of course, Russia also has its own instruments of political and cultural influence on a global level which have proved to be very useful and effective both in relation to Crimea (such as Natalia Poklonskaya ) and in relation to Donbass .
Consider, for example, the Institute of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Foundation for the support and protection of the rights of compatriots living abroad or the Rossotrudnichestvo.
But certainly influential personalities in this sector also play a role, such as Dmitry Kozak, who heads Russkiy Mir also present in Italy (for example in Turin).
As clearly indicated by all the most important English-language studies on Russian soft power tools, this institute is closely linked to the most influential personalities of the Putinian entourage: Vyacheslav Nikonov , Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the head of RT Margarita Simonian and Igor Maslov , belonging to the Russian external intelligence.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/soft-power-russia/ on Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:27:29 +0000.