"Soft power" of Vladimir Putin
Putin's speech to the ambassadors did not shine with innovations. All the same chewing gum and phobias: the weakening of the “dominance of the traditional West”, the intensification of the struggle for resources, “missile and bomb diplomacy”. And we are also being bullied because we call for negotiations in Syria on equal terms between the executioners and their victims. There are, by and large, two innovations. Firstly, the Magnitsky law is called “anti-Russian”.