The tasks of Sigal will include the promotion of relations between states in the humanitarian spheres - culture, art, public and youth exchanges, as well as other related areas. The new work of the Hollywood star was reported in the Russian Foreign Ministry. "This is a socio-political position, not involving a monetary reward. The very case when the people's diplomacy meets with traditional diplomacy, "noted in the diplomatic mission. Similar posts, for example, are in the UN, where ambassadors of goodwill are engaged in similar activities, they added in the ministry. According to Andrei Suzdaltsev, Deputy Head of the Department of World Economy and World Politics of the Higher School of Economics, Sigal and other star aliens with a Russian passport are able not only to establish ties with other countries, but also "act in their own way as lawyers of Russia, their new homeland". The expert stressed that the practice of involving status individuals in international diplomacy has long been common both in Europe and abroad.

"It is believed that these people attract huge attention by themselves, it is easier for them to solve some humanitarian issues, cultural issues, cultural cooperation issues," Suzdaltsev told RIA Novosti, adding that the initiative to become a special representative of the Foreign Ministry could come from the actor himself. However, from the American side this step of the Russian Foreign Ministry to the meeting caused, to put it mildly, skepticism. The former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul in his comment was laconic. "The gesture of despair," he wrote on Twitter.