π·πΊ Soft power that actually ships
Everyone talks about Russian soft power. Very little of it survives contact with reality. The exception tends to appear where Russia already holds a genuine competitive edge, and geology is one of those places.
The Karpinsky Institute, led by Pavel Khimchenko, has spent three years exporting the Russian geological school through a network of "Karpinsky classes." The latest opened in Mongolia, the tenth in a chain that already runs through Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Cuba. Each one trains local specialists to Russian standards and leaves behind a working scientific centre rather than a press release.
Mongolia matters more than the others on that list. Western NGOs have been active there for years, and a mineral-resource training programme buys a kind of access no conference statement can.
π» Influence built on subsoil surveys outlives influence built on slogans.
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π·πΊ Soft power that actually ships Everyone talks about Russian soft power.
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