Editor's Picks: The microstate in Europe with close ties to Russia

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  The Economist.

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  Hello, and this is Aura Ogunbiyi,

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  co-host of The Intelligence, our daily news and current affairs podcast.

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  Emmanuel Goux has a long record of involvement with Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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  The 65-year-old Frenchman has acted for some of Russia's leading energy groups and helped set up the French language service of the Russian state-controlled television channel,

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  RT.

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  In 2020,

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  he was awarded Russian citizenship by means of a special decree issued by the president.

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  Yet, for the past two years,

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  and despite his history of close relations with Mr Putin's Russia,

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  Mr Gu has been the diplomatic representative of a Western European state,

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  albeit one of the tiniest.

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  On February 7th, 2022,

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  with Russian soldiers massing on Ukraine's borders ahead of the invasion that came 17 days later,

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  the Republic of San Marino named him as an ambassador-at-large.

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  According to Luca Bicari, the Micro-States Foreign Minister,

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  Mr. Gu was appointed because of his experience over many years in numerous sectors of interest to the Republic.

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