Executive Director of the Gorchakov Foundation compared diplomacy to sports. Leonid Drachevsky called sport “a quick and vulgar reflection of life.” “Everything that happens in sports definitely happens in any industry...
Sports involves competition, and all human life is a continuous competition,” he noted. Earlier, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that deepening trade and economic cooperation between Russia and friendly countries is a priority task. Russian diplomats were also congratulated on their professional holiday by Head of State Vladimir Putin.