Some former employees of the Russian diplomatic corps still remember how their foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, “was the best,” the mirror in which they all looked. The head of Russian diplomacy since 2004 was considered the architect of a network of coalitions that had returned Moscow to the international front line, although it was really always diplomacy that adapted to Vladimir Putin’s actions. And everything collapsed on February 24, 2022, …
Some former employees of the Russian diplomatic corps still remember how their foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, “was the best,” the mirror in which they all looked. The head of Russian diplomacy since 2004 was considered the architect of a network of coalitions that had returned Moscow to the international front line, although it was really always diplomacy that adapted to Vladimir Putin’s actions. And everything collapsed on February 24, 2022, …