{"id":25336,"date":"2025-01-06T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=25336"},"modified":"2025-01-07T09:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:44:57","slug":"how-russia-speculates-on-colonialism-to-expand-influence-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/how-russia-speculates-on-colonialism-to-expand-influence-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How Russia speculates on colonialism to expand influence in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia continues its propaganda efforts to foster anti-Western sentiments in African countries to increase its influence on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Russian propaganda is circulating an article by the Russian Foreign Ministry that accuses the West of neocolonialism and exploiting African nations. In contrast, Russia is presented as a long-time supporter of liberation movements, claiming it doesn&#8217;t interfere in the internal affairs of African countries. These speculations aim to convince Africans to abandon cooperation with the West in favor of alignment with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>However, Russia itself is engaging in neocolonial practices in Africa, exporting resources and imposing economic dependence on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Russian propaganda claims, the Russian Empire attempted to seize colonies in Africa in the late 19th century, particularly in present-day Ethiopia and Djibouti, but these attempts ultimately failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia continues its propaganda efforts to foster anti-Western sentiments in African countries to increase its influence on the continent. Russian propaganda is circulating an article by the Russian Foreign Ministry that accuses the West of neocolonialism and exploiting African nations. In contrast, Russia is presented as a long-time supporter of liberation movements, claiming it doesn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25333,"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":933,"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-south"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336","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=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}