russia\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs has announced plans to intensify its work with \u201ccompatriots\u201d abroad amid the ongoing hybrid confrontation with the West.<\/p>\n
moscow claims it will engage more actively with diaspora communities by providing legal consultations and working to strengthen their \u201cunity.\u201d However, behind this \u201cconcern\u201d lies moscow\u2019s purely pragmatic interest.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f The kremlin views russian-speaking communities around the world as a strategic instrument of influence. Its main objective is to form a loyal audience capable of influencing public opinion in their countries of residence and promoting narratives favorable to russia in the foreign media space.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f In addition to information influence, such communities provide a convenient environment for conducting hybrid operations. Under the guise of \u201ccultural consolidation,\u201d networks are being created that can be used by the kremlin for destabilization, organizing protest actions, or even preparing acts of sabotage.<\/p>\n
Thus, the expansion of work with \u201ccompatriots\u201d may be part of russia\u2019s broader strategy to increase its hybrid presence worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russia\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs has announced plans to intensify its work with \u201ccompatriots\u201d abroad amid the ongoing hybrid confrontation with the West. moscow claims it will engage more actively with diaspora communities by providing legal consultations and working to strengthen their \u201cunity.\u201d However, behind this \u201cconcern\u201d lies moscow\u2019s purely pragmatic interest. \u25ab\ufe0f The kremlin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46831,"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-46830","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\/46830","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=46830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}