Having participated in the Valdai Index poll, Thomas Gomart, Director of the Russia/ Newly Independent States Centre at IFRI (French Institute of International Relations) generalized the results of the research by extending the scope of long-distance view to the decade and shared it with the valdaiclub.com.
Since December 2011 there is a real convergence between the perception
of President Vladimir Putin and the perception of Russia, especially, in
the Western media.
