{"id":43840,"date":"2026-02-17T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=43840"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:14:31","slug":"russia-promotes-the-narrative-of-the-legitimacy-of-the-donbas-occupation-through-foreign-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/russia-promotes-the-narrative-of-the-legitimacy-of-the-donbas-occupation-through-foreign-students\/","title":{"rendered":"russia promotes the narrative of the \u201clegitimacy\u201d of the Donbas occupation through foreign students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In temporarily occupied Luhansk, under the guise of a \u201ccultural dialogue,\u201d a staged tour was organized for foreign medical students from India, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria to an Orthodox church as part of the so-called \u201cyear of the unity of the peoples of russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Pro-kremlin representatives, presenting the event as an example of the region\u2019s international openness, emphasized that foreign youth allegedly showed active interest in the \u201cspiritual heritage of Donbas,\u201d aiming to create the impression of growing international attention to the TOT.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In reality, this is another attempt to informationally legitimize the occupation. The involvement of foreign students is used as a tool to create the illusion of international presence and tacit approval of russia\u2019s actions in the occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p>The occupation authorities have previously used a similar tactic, organizing visits of so-called \u201cforeign journalists\u201d and politicians to Donetsk to project an image of \u201cinternational support\u201d and promote propaganda narratives about the \u201creconstruction of Donbas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In temporarily occupied Luhansk, under the guise of a \u201ccultural dialogue,\u201d a staged tour was organized for foreign medical students from India, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria to an Orthodox church as part of the so-called \u201cyear of the unity of the peoples of russia.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f Pro-kremlin representatives, presenting the event as an example of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43841,"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-43840","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\/43840","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=43840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}