{"id":43538,"date":"2026-02-09T16:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=43538"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:45:21","slug":"russia-is-using-education-to-strengthen-its-influence-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/russia-is-using-education-to-strengthen-its-influence-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"russia is using education to strengthen its influence in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the &#8220;russian cultural center&#8221; in Equatorial Guinea, the &#8220;birthday of st. petersburg State University&#8221; was celebrated, during which they urged local youth to learn russian and pursue education in russia.<\/p>\n<p>Such events are presented as &#8220;developing scientific and educational cooperation&#8221;, but in reality, russia is trying to use education to spread its own influence on African countries.<\/p>\n<p>By educating foreign students, russia not only provides them with practical knowledge, but also conducts ideological indoctrination. They are instilled with hatred towards the West, admiration for the &#8220;greatness of russia&#8221;, and a desire to promote russia&#8217;s interests in their own countries.<\/p>\n<p>While young russians are increasingly restricted in access to higher education, the kremlin is simultaneously using the education sector as a tool to expand its influence in African countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the &#8220;russian cultural center&#8221; in Equatorial Guinea, the &#8220;birthday of st. petersburg State University&#8221; was celebrated, during which they urged local youth to learn russian and pursue education in russia. Such events are presented as &#8220;developing scientific and educational cooperation&#8221;, but in reality, russia is trying to use education to spread its own influence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43539,"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-43538","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\/43538","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=43538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}