{"id":33665,"date":"2025-06-19T10:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=33665"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:36:54","slug":"russia-continues-to-cover-up-its-expansion-in-the-global-south-with-the-russian-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/russia-continues-to-cover-up-its-expansion-in-the-global-south-with-the-russian-language\/","title":{"rendered":"russia continues to cover up its expansion in the Global South with the \u201cRussian language\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia is trying to expand its influence in the Global South under the guise of educational and cultural programs. In the capital of Sri Lanka, a russian language course will be introduced at an educational institution for local diplomats. In addition to the language, russian teachers will teach Sri Lankans about the culture and history of russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fSimilar initiatives are being carried out by russia in Africa, where the russian authorities regularly organize events aimed at promoting russian language and culture. However, culture at these events is just a cover for spreading anti-Western propaganda and justifying russia&#8217;s aggressive foreign policy in the Global South.<\/p>\n<p>kremlin deliberately uses language and culture as tools to advance its geopolitical interests. In reality, russia&#8217;s interest in the Global South is not about the love for the &#8220;great russian culture,&#8221; but rather about natural resources and support on the international stage. Along with cultural presence, economic and military influence quickly follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia is trying to expand its influence in the Global South under the guise of educational and cultural programs. In the capital of Sri Lanka, a russian language course will be introduced at an educational institution for local diplomats. In addition to the language, russian teachers will teach Sri Lankans about the culture and history&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33666,"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-33665","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\/33665","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=33665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}