Yevgeny Primakov, head of Russia’s “cultural diplomacy” agency Rossotrudnichestvo, said on Tuesday that his government plans to launch a foreign aid and development program modeled on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – the agency the Trump administration folded into the State Department due to its profligate spending.
Rossotrudnichestvo, formally titled the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent State Affairs, is an organ of the Russian Foreign Ministry that was established in 2008 to spread Russian influence abroad.
The agency is supposed to do this by promoting Russian culture and Moscow’s views on…
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