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education centers, and NGOs and their international partners. It organizes large-scale studies
of key international problems, prepares analytical reports, analyzes force majeure events, and
translates foreign publications into Russian.
TO SUM UP, the Russian leadership has done a great deal over the past two decades to make
Russian society better aware of what happens in the realm of foreign policy. Public diplomacy
plays an increasing role in Russia, as it does worldwide, and has become an important supplement
to official diplomacy.
Russia possesses a huge potential for public diplomacy. It includes the serious international pres-
tige of Russian science and arts, experience accumulated since the Soviet era, Russian cultural
centers all over the globe, and the Russian World - millions of people in former Soviet republics
and other countries who are drawn toward Russia, its language and culture, and who vitally need
permanent contact with their historical home.
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