The Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily reported that in late May, the Kremlin set up a special coordinating body led by the Presidential Chief of Staff Sergey Naryshkin in order to improve Russia’s image abroad. The new body, which will also include Aleksey Gromov, the deputy head of the presidential administration, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Sergey Prikhodko, the assistant to the president for international affairs, will play a more proactive role in policy coordination than its predecessor, the Foreign Ministry commission. What does this move by the Kremlin really mean? Will the new Kremlin structure be more effective in promoting a better image of Russia abroad than its various predecessors were?
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