Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation
Федеральное агентство по делам Содружества Независимых Государств, соотечественников, проживающих за рубежом, и по международному гуманитарному сотрудничеству (Россотрудничество)
Rossotrudnichestvo and its structures support pro-Russia rallies which are allegedly supported by local neo-Nazis.[3]
Apparently from an investigation by theAlexey Navalny associated website (navalny.com), Ekaterina Solotsinskaya,[b] who wasDmitry Peskov's second ex-wife, was fired in February 2018 as the head of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris (RCSC) or (RTsNK) (Russian:Российский центр науки и культуры в Париже (РЦНК)), which is under the auspices of Rossotrudnichestvo in France.[9][11][12]
^Russian:Федеральное агентство по делам Содружества Независимых Государств, соотечественников, проживающих за рубежом, и по международному гуманитарному сотрудничеству; commonly known asRossotrudnichestvo (Russian:Россотрудничество, "Russo-Colleagueship")
^Ekaterina Vladimirovna Solotsinskaya (Russian:Екатерина Владимировна Солоцинская born 1976) wasDmitry Peskov's former wife of 20 years until their 2014 divorce. She is the daughter ofVladimir Dmitrievich Solotsinsky (Russian:Владимир Дмитриевич Солоцинский; born 25 September 1948), who graduated fromMoscow State Institute of International Relations in 1970, entered theUSSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973 and later theRussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is fluent in English and Turkish and was the formerRussian Ambassador to North Macedonia from 8 June 2006 to 17 November 2010. She grew up in Ankara where her father was stationed and is where she, at 14 years old, met Peskov. Peskov, similar to her father, is fluent in Turkish and was a Russian-Turkish translator. She graduated fromInstitute of Asian and African Countries (IAAS) (Russian:ИСАА) at 18 years old and married Peskov. They moved to Moscow where she studied at the Faculty of Philology ofMoscow State University. After her gruaduation at MSU, she and her husband returned to Ankara where he was stationed as a diplomat and lived there for four years. When Yeltsin visited Istanbul, Katya's father Vladimir Solotsinsky recommended for Yeltsin's Russian-Turkish translator Solotsinsky's son-in-law Dmitry Peskov, who allegedly was the best Turkish-Russian translator on Russian Embassy's staff. Katya was a teacher. Later,Alexei Gromov invited Peskov to work in the Kremlin and on 31 December 1999, Dmitry was asked to be the head of the department. According to Katya, "He says: "Let's go?" and I can't do this, my students are in the middle of the school year." In June 2000, she and Peskov joined Putin's staff in Moscow. When she publicly admitted in August 2014 that she and Dmitry Peskov were divorced, she lived in France and their daughter Elizaveta "Liza" Peskova (born 1998), who had studied at theÉcole des Roches inVerneuil-sur-Avre, which is the oldest private college in Normandy and was founded by Golitsyn princes, had graduated from school, their middle child Mika Peskov (born 2004 or 2005) was 10 years old, and their youngest child Denis Peskov (born 2008 or 2009) was six. From June 2017 until February 2018, she headed the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris (RCSC) or (RTsNK) (Russian:Российский центр науки и культуры в Париже (РЦНК)), which is called Rossotrudnichestvo in France. After Putin's trip to France in May 2017, she replaced Igor Shpynov (Russian:Игорь Шпынов) who had headed (RCSC) or (RTsNK) for many years, was known as a man of the old formation - intelligent and erudite, and allegedly was friends withMireille Mathieu.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
^Ben Noble, associate professor of Russian politics at University College London;Mark Galeotti, an analyst and Russia specialist; and Sam Ramani, an international relations expert at Oxford University provided evaluations toThe Times newspaper.[14]
^Weiss, Michael (December 29, 2017)."The KGB Playbook for Turning Russians Worldwide Into Agents".The Daily Beast. RetrievedJanuary 12, 2018.For instance, the cultural organization Rossotrudnichestvo, run by Sergei Lavrov's Foreign Ministry, has financed any number of European governmental nongovernmental organizations—"GONGOs"—dealing with this mythical double-headed beast of resurgent Nazism and Russian persecution, from Tallinn to Tbilisi.
^"Уволили — хорошо. А что с деньгами?" [If you were fired, that's good. And what about money?].navalny.com (in Russian). 19 February 2018. Archived fromthe original on 28 May 2019. Retrieved18 June 2025.
