{"id":44938,"date":"2026-03-17T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=44938"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:30:48","slug":"how-russia-uses-environmental-initiatives-for-propaganda-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/how-russia-uses-environmental-initiatives-for-propaganda-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"How russia uses environmental initiatives for propaganda abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia has announced the international campaign \u201cmemory garden,\u201d presenting it as an eco-patriotic initiative involving dozens of countries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fThe campaign involves planting trees in honor of those who died during World War II. On the surface, the idea appears universally positive. Participation in an environmental initiative commemorating war victims is difficult to refuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fHowever, beneath this apparent \u201cneutrality\u201d lies a political agenda. The campaign begins in occupied Crimea, making it a tool for legitimizing russia\u2019s occupation of Ukrainian territories. Participants also include russian-occupied regions of Georgia \u2014 South Ossetia and Abkhazia.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmemory garden\u201d campaign exemplifies how even seemingly apolitical initiatives can be turned into instruments of information influence by russia. Here, environmental and memorial elements are combined with propaganda, and through foreign participation, russia constructs a positive image of itself as a state supposedly uniting peoples around historical memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia has announced the international campaign \u201cmemory garden,\u201d presenting it as an eco-patriotic initiative involving dozens of countries worldwide. \u25ab\ufe0fThe campaign involves planting trees in honor of those who died during World War II. On the surface, the idea appears universally positive. Participation in an environmental initiative commemorating war victims is difficult to refuse. \u25ab\ufe0fHowever,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44939,"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-44938","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\/44938","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=44938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}