“Diplomacy presupposes an obligatory game, a competition of minds, ideas, and various approaches. Therefore, I see a direct analogy here,” Drachevsky said in an interview on the fund’s page on the VKontakte social network.
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 that Russian diplomats are working on.
Russian diplomats were also congratulated on their professional holiday by Head of State Vladimir Putin. He emphasized the importance of their work to unite the Russian world.