Daily Mirror - 95 YEARS OF RUSSIAN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
95 YEARS OF RUSSIAN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY 19 December 2020 12:49 am - 0 The All-Union Society for Cultural Relations (AUSCR) was created in 1925, aimed at “the establishment and development of scientific and cultural ties between institutions, NGOs and cultural figures of the USSR and abroad.” Olga Kameneva, sister of Leo Trotsky and wife of the first head of the Soviet state Leo Kamenev had become the chair of the organisation. Such prominent figures as the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, writer Mikhail Sholokhov contributed to th...
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