{"id":44809,"date":"2026-03-13T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=44809"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:13:33","slug":"expansion-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-new-parish-to-open-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/expansion-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-new-parish-to-open-in-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Expansion of the russian orthodox church: new parish to open in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The russian orthodox church will open its religious community in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The roc stated that the decision to establish the community and build a church was made following appeals from \u201crussian-speaking orthodox believers\u201d residing in the Emirati capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The expansion of the roc\u2019s presence abroad is taking place amid moscow\u2019s active foreign policy strategy in the countries of the Global South. Church structures are systematically used by the kremlin as instruments of \u201csoft power\u201d to form communities connected with russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Church communities may become platforms for consolidating russian-speaking \u201ccompatriots\u201d or local residents with pro-russian views. Through such communities, informal networks of contacts are formed, which may later be used to promote kremlin interests.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the development of church infrastructure abroad is not only a religious activity. It also fits into russia\u2019s strategy to expand its influence in the countries of the Global South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The russian orthodox church will open its religious community in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. \u25ab\ufe0f The roc stated that the decision to establish the community and build a church was made following appeals from \u201crussian-speaking orthodox believers\u201d residing in the Emirati capital. \u25ab\ufe0f The expansion of the roc\u2019s presence abroad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44810,"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-44809","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\/44809","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=44809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}