• Journal of Public Diplomacy
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.129-155
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• 2024

Public diplomacy is not a foreign concept to Russian-speaking authors. Nevertheless, there has been no systematic, comprehensive analysis of the Russian language-based academic literature on public diplomacy. This article attempts to fill this research gap. Thanks to the systematic literature analysis of 1002 articles included in the main data set, it was possible to identify a number of specific trends and characteristics of public diplomacy scholarship in Russian language for the period from 2000 to 2023. Among the main aspects analyzed were the number and distribution of articles by authors, gender distribution of authors, main keywords, and journals publishing articles on public diplomacy in Russia and abroad among others. The discussion suggests a critical approach to the data obtained and invites exploration of more specific aspects in the future.