{"id":38111,"date":"2025-09-22T10:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=38111"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:23:10","slug":"why-ru-propaganda-talks-about-african-investments-in-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/why-ru-propaganda-talks-about-african-investments-in-crimea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why ru-propaganda talks about &#8220;African investments&#8221; in Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda is actively covering the visit of the ambassadors of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to occupied Crimea, presenting it as a \u201cdiplomatic breakthrough\u201d and the start of \u201cinvestment cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The three mentioned African countries are among the poorest in the world, with budgets largely dependent on external aid. Expecting serious investments in Crimea, which is under sanctions, is at least naive.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Such meetings have no real economic meaning and are used solely for informational purposes: the kremlin seeks to simulate \u201cinternational recognition\u201d of the occupied peninsula and create the illusion of economic development prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Such statements about \u201ccooperation plans\u201d are intended to convince the russian audience and the population of the occupied peninsula that Crimea is \u201cnot isolated.\u201d In reality, any projects with African countries are limited to symbolic gestures and propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda is actively covering the visit of the ambassadors of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to occupied Crimea, presenting it as a \u201cdiplomatic breakthrough\u201d and the start of \u201cinvestment cooperation.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f The three mentioned African countries are among the poorest in the world, with budgets largely dependent on external aid. Expecting serious investments in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38112,"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":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38111","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=38111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}