{"id":35029,"date":"2025-07-14T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T05:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=35029"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:36:53","slug":"crisis-in-the-construction-of-nuclear-power-plants-in-turkey-kremlins-nuclear-influence-is-weakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/crisis-in-the-construction-of-nuclear-power-plants-in-turkey-kremlins-nuclear-influence-is-weakening\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in the construction of nuclear power plants in Turkey: &#8220;Kremlin&#8217;s &#8216;nuclear&#8217; influence is weakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crisis has emerged at russia\u2019s strategic construction project in Turkey \u2014 the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. Since May, russian workers have not been receiving their salaries, and the total number of personnel has decreased from 12,000 to 3,000. Media reports also indicate that moscow is attempting to sell its stake in the nuclear facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f For years, kremlin used the construction of nuclear facilities in various countries as a tool of global influence. russia spared no expense, treating these projects as investments in its image as a \u201ckey geopolitical player.\u201d However, the full-scale war against Ukraine has changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Today, russia no longer has the resources for such showcase projects. Massive war expenditures, sanctions, and economic instability are gradually eroding the key pillars of kremlin\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>The construction of the Akkuyu NPP \u2014 once viewed by moscow as a potential instrument of pressure on Turkey \u2014 has become a burden on russia\u2019s war-drained economy. The country can no longer sustain the financing of such ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crisis has emerged at russia\u2019s strategic construction project in Turkey \u2014 the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. Since May, russian workers have not been receiving their salaries, and the total number of personnel has decreased from 12,000 to 3,000. Media reports also indicate that moscow is attempting to sell its stake in the nuclear facility&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35030,"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-35029","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\/35029","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=35029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}