{"id":26768,"date":"2025-01-30T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=26768"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T11:53:17","slug":"russian-expansion-through-religion-in-the-global-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/russian-expansion-through-religion-in-the-global-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian expansion through religion in the Global South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has announced a new season of the propaganda project &#8220;Globe of Orthodoxy.&#8221; The program is hosted by Maria Butina, who previously served 15 months in a U.S. prison for acting as a Kremlin agent. She will promote narratives about Russian Orthodox communities abroad, particularly in the Global South countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f\u00a0 This project is part of Russia&#8217;s propaganda strategy aimed at promoting the interests of the Kremlin and the concept of the \u201cRussian world\u201d under the guise of religion. It aims to create a favorable image of Russia while highlighting the presence of Russian Orthodox communities worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has long served as a Kremlin tool in hybrid warfare. This project further confirms that Moscow is using religion to expand its political influence globally.<\/p>\n<p>The Center has previously detailed the Russian Orthodox Church\u2019s military involvement, its ties to the Russian armed forces, and its role in legitimizing the Kremlin\u2019s criminal actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has announced a new season of the propaganda project &#8220;Globe of Orthodoxy.&#8221; The program is hosted by Maria Butina, who previously served 15 months in a U.S. prison for acting as a Kremlin agent. She will promote narratives about Russian Orthodox communities abroad, particularly in the Global South countries. \u25ab\ufe0f\u00a0 This project is part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26769,"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-26768","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\/26768","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=26768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}