The Tao Of Lavrov
After nearly 13 years as Russia's top diplomat, Sergei Lavrov appears to be getting fed up. He also appears to have been marginalized and excluded from the decision-making process in Moscow. The story of the incredible shrinking foreign minister isn't just about Lavrov. It's about the downgrading of the Foreign Ministry as a whole, as well as the foreign policy professionals in the Putin regime. THe ongoing changes in governing of Russian foreign policy were the topic of RFE/RL Power Vertical Podcast, with Mark Galeotti as one of its guests.
You can listen to the podcast here.
Joining moderator Brian Whitmore was Donald Jensen, a former State Department official, a fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in the Nitze School of International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis and senior research fellow and co-ordinator of the Centre for European Security of the IIR, Mark Galeotti, internationally recognized expert on transnational organized crime, security issues and modern Russia, former Senior Research Fellow at Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Adjunct Professor at Charles University in Prague.
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