A man with close ties to the Kremlin went looking for and found the remains of World War I Russian soldiers in France. Moscow hopes to use the discovery for diplomatic purposes.
Tag: Malinowski, Pierre
A Skeleton for Diplomacy: How a Plan to Reconcile France and Russia Collapsed
The remains of a Napoleonic general who died on a Russian battlefield came home in July. But the chance for rapprochement collapsed over concerns about Moscow’s policies.