russia has launched a propaganda campaign for cosmonautics day in countries of the Global South.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Through the network of \u201crossotrudnichestvo\u201d and the so-called \u201crussian houses,\u201d festivals, lectures, exhibitions, and educational events dedicated to space and Yuriy Gagarin\u2019s flight are being held across dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Although these events are presented as \u201cscientific and educational,\u201d they are in fact a classic soft power tool. In this way, russia aims to create a positive image of itself. Through propaganda of \u201ctechnological greatness,\u201d the kremlin seeks to sell the world the myth of russia as a \u201cmajor space power.\u201d<\/p>\n
In reality, the russian space industry is far from this propagandistic image. Under sanctions and enormous war-related expenditures, it is rapidly losing positions, technologies, and personnel, while the sector\u2019s productivity has effectively regressed to the level of the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russia has launched a propaganda campaign for cosmonautics day in countries of the Global South. \u25ab\ufe0f Through the network of \u201crossotrudnichestvo\u201d and the so-called \u201crussian houses,\u201d festivals, lectures, exhibitions, and educational events dedicated to space and Yuriy Gagarin\u2019s flight are being held across dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. \u25ab\ufe0f Although these…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45685,"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-45684","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\/45684","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=45684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}