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April 19, 2014
Russian Diplomats Are Eating America's Lunch
By Sheila Samples
The Russian muckraking journalist Artyom Borovik died in 2000 in a still-unsolved Moscow plane accident days after producing a scathing article about an ascendant Russian politician, Vladimir Putin, who was about to become president. Borovik quoted Putin in an article as saying, â??There are three ways to influence people: blackmail, vodka, and the threat to kill.â? Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is fairly typical. A graduate of the ...
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The Russian muckraking journalist Artyom Borovik died in 2000 in a still-unsolved Moscow plane accident days after producing a scathing article about an ascendant Russian politician, Vladimir Putin, who was about to become president. Borovik quoted Putin in an article as saying, â??There are three ways to influence people: blackmail, vodka, and the threat to kill.â? Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is fairly typical. A graduate of the prestigious Moscow Institute for International Relations (known by its Russian acronym, MGIMO) and 42-year Foreign Ministry veteran, Lavrov speaks fluent English as well as Sinhalese, Dhiveli and French. A former U.S. ambassador who had dealt with Lavrov at the United Nations described him to me as disciplined, witty and charming, a diplomat so skilled â??he runs rings around us in the multilateral sphere.â?Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.