{"id":23071,"date":"2024-11-11T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=23071"},"modified":"2024-11-11T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T12:03:28","slug":"politico-russian-orthodox-church-in-sweden-suspected-of-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/politico-russian-orthodox-church-in-sweden-suspected-of-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"russian orthodox church in Sweden suspected of espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico has reported that a recently built russian orthodox church in the Swedish city of V\u00e4ster\u00e5s could be used by russia for espionage and sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>Key points from the article:<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The church is strategically located near a critical airport, water treatment facilities, and major energy companies.<br \/>\n\u25ab\ufe0f A spokesperson of the Swedish Security Service said that church members \u201chad contacts\u201d with individuals working for russian intelligence in Sweden.<br \/>\n\u25ab\ufe0f The russian orthodox church is frequently used by the kremlin as a platform for intelligence operations in Sweden.<br \/>\n\u25ab\ufe0f Security experts are urging Sweden to restrict the activities of institutions linked to moscow, including this church.<\/p>\n<p>This is further evidence of how the kremlin is intentionally weaponizing religious structures for espionage and sabotage, posing a direct threat to the security of other nations.<\/p>\n<p>The Center has previously detailed the military activities of the russian orthodox church, its cooperation with the russian armed forces, and its role in legitimizing the kremlin&#8217;s criminal actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u25b6\ufe0f The full analytical report \u00abHoly war\u00bb: military activities of the russian orthodox church\u00bb is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/report\/analytical-report-holy-war-military-activities-of-the-russian-orthodox-church\/\">https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/announcements\/analytical-report-holy-war-military-activities-of-the-russian-orthodox-church\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico has reported that a recently built russian orthodox church in the Swedish city of V\u00e4ster\u00e5s could be used by russia for espionage and sabotage. Key points from the article: \u25ab\ufe0f The church is strategically located near a critical airport, water treatment facilities, and major energy companies. \u25ab\ufe0f A spokesperson of the Swedish Security Service&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}