In an interview with ‘Taipei Times’ reporter Stacy Hsu, Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation Representative Dmitrii Polianskii, who assumed the Taipei post in January last year, expressed the hope that ties between Russians and Taiwanese would become closer, saying that both sides have a lot to offer each other

Taipei Times
Date: Jan 24, 2017

Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation Representative Dmitrii Polianskii gestures during an interview with the Taipei Times on Nov. 28 last year in Taipei. Photo: Stacy Hsu, Taipei Times

Taipei Times (TT): Taiwanese generally have a poor knowledge of Russia. After serving as Moscow’s representative to Taipei for nearly a year, how do you propose to improve this?

Dmitrii Polianskii: Actually, in today’s world it is not a problem to get information about a certain country. Twenty years ago people were supposed to go to a library to learn something before traveling to a certain place. Now there are a lot of online resources and our small world has become much closer.   [INTERVIEW CONTINUES]