Russian \u201csoft power\u201d aimed at promoting the country\u2019s image abroad is working and President Vladimir Putin is its key element, a report presented by the Center for Political Analysis at TASS on Friday says.<\/p>\n
\u201cRussian soft power is working smoothly. Russian President Vladimir Putin was and remains its main force. His personality, charisma, international authority, business and political qualities allow the country, which he represents, to successfully position itself in the consciousness of both ordinary people and also foreign elites,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n
The term \u201csoft power\u201d is a form of political power which is capable of achieving the needed results by attracting and arousing sympathy compared with \u201chard power\u201d that implies coercion.<\/p>\n
The authors of the Russian Soft Power report said in the 1990s Russia almost suspended its effort to improve the public opinion abroad. The importance of working with foreign mass media came to the forefront when Putin became the country\u2019s leader in 2000.<\/p>\n
When the political crisis hit the former Soviet country and Russia\u2019s neighbor Ukraine earlier this year, Moscow already possessed \u201cits own system of information influence,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n
The report cites the results of various opinion polls conducted in the United States, Europe, China and other countries, which showed that Europeans and Americans opposed their countries\u2019 interference in the Ukrainian conflict.<\/p>\n
\u201cEuropeans and Americans believe that only Vladimir Putin can resolve it,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n
Among those sympathizing with Putin and Russia are the representatives of practically all the political forces \u2014 both right-wing, centrist and left-wing parties, radicals, \u201cwise men,\u201d street activists and politicians integrated into political system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russian \u201csoft power\u201d aimed at promoting the country\u2019s image abroad is working and President Vladimir Putin is its key element, a report presented by the Center for Political Analysis at TASS on Friday says. \u201cRussian soft power is working smoothly. Russian President Vladimir Putin was and remains its main force. His personality, charisma, international authority, … Continue reading “Putin’s soft power working smoothly”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[66,10450,67,1808],"class_list":["post-16694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-russia","tag-soft-power","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16695,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions\/16695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}