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Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin (www.bbc.com)

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Russia's diplomats were once a key part of President Putin's foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed.

In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric.

BBC Russian asks former diplomats, as well as ex-Kremlin and White House insiders, how Russian diplomacy broke down.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

You didn't indicate so. You just laid out a claim on thin air and then went ahead to deny all I said. So...