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It's always interesting reading the biographies of Russian diplomats and public figures:
Wikipedia snippet on Mikhail Bogdanov:
It's probably mostly just self-interested politics, but I still hope that some of these people have a bit of the Soviet spirit of anti-imperialism and international solidarity (and lord knows this Bogdanov has the looks).
are we in the fucking nineteenth century?
we are, but unfortunately there will be no fucking
Yes
Socialist countries tended to have very professional diplomatic corps, and in the countries where those weren't purged in 90's* this more or less keeps up.
*idk about Russia but for example surprisingly Poland, while having the shittiest possible Foreign ministry personnel being the prize for least competent party bonzos and their bootlicks, did not purged the professional diplomatic service and even 35 years later they are doing very good job at least until ministry failures cut in (like in case of that fuckup with Iran conference).
I would suspect so as well. Just as people in western politics have been strongly influenced by the system they grew up in, I'd expect Russian politicians internalized at least some Soviet values going through the system.
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