{"id":24334,"date":"2024-12-11T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=24334"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:41:57","slug":"how-the-kremlin-pays-billions-of-dollars-for-imaginary-geopolitical-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/how-the-kremlin-pays-billions-of-dollars-for-imaginary-geopolitical-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Kremlin pays billions of dollars for imaginary geopolitical greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite serious domestic problems, the Kremlin increases loans to \u201cfriendly countires\u201d, imitating geopolitical greatness.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0f Over the past year, Russia has issued record-breaking loans to other states, totaling more than $30 billion\u2014the highest since 1999. The largest recipient has been Lukashenko&#8217;s Belarus, which received $7.75 billion. Bangladesh, India, Egypt, and Vietnam are also among the top beneficiaries. At the same time, the Kremlin continues actively writing off debts it had previously issued.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow\u2019s \u201cgenerosity\u201d is driven solely by its desire to project itself as a \u201cgreat power\u201d and maintain influence over its neighbors and the Global South, despite the harm to its own citizens. Meanwhile, Russia faces serious economic problems, neglected regional infrastructure, and declining living standards due to the costs of the war and the Kremlin\u2019s geopolitical ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite serious domestic problems, the Kremlin increases loans to \u201cfriendly countires\u201d, imitating geopolitical greatness. \u25aa\ufe0f Over the past year, Russia has issued record-breaking loans to other states, totaling more than $30 billion\u2014the highest since 1999. The largest recipient has been Lukashenko&#8217;s Belarus, which received $7.75 billion. Bangladesh, India, Egypt, and Vietnam are also among the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24329,"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":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24334","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=24334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}