Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Sarah Mendelson, a senior fellow with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, "Russia Pumps Tens of Millions into Burnishing Image Abroad."
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Sarah Mendelson, a senior fellow with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by the Washington Post, "Russia Pumps Tens of Millions into Burnishing Image Abroad."
In early 2004, when Svetlana Mironyuk became director general of the Russian news and information agency RIA Novosti, she discovered that the descendant of the Soviet Union's global propaganda machine was dying on its feet.
Some of its writers were still using typewriters from communist days. The agency was publishing just one English-language newspaper, Sputnik, which was supposedly sold in Britain, although Mironyuk said she could find no evidence of that. Travel agents and dentists had moved into RIA's stolid Moscow headquarters building. [...]
But Sarah Mendelson, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said she actually found herself reading an article in the latest edition. She calls the overall push "remarkable," aimed at general audiences as well as elites. Read the article
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