The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international assistance agency, has an ambitious plan for the Kremlin soft-power entity to fill development gaps created by the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development. For that to happen, however, Rossotrudnichestvo will have to surmount major financing and image-related hurdles. In a wide-ranging interview published by the Russian outlet RBC, the agency’s chief, Yevgeny Primakov, revealed that he is seeking to revamp and expand activities, taking advantage of USAID’s…
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