russia continues to invest significant resources in the ideological indoctrination of young people in order to cultivate loyal elites in the temporarily occupied territories (TOT). One example is the kremlin\u2019s large-scale personnel program, \u201cTerritory of New Opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Occupation-controlled resources report that more than 2,700 residents of the TOT have applied to participate. The program promises training sessions and mentorship from russian instructors and officials. Its declared objectives \u2014 \u201ccountering historical fakes\u201d and \u201cengaging youth in socially beneficial activities\u201d \u2014 clearly reveal the kremlin\u2019s true intentions.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Under the guise of \u201ceducation,\u201d the occupiers are attempting to artificially create a network of local opinion leaders who will eventually be integrated into the power structures of the TOT and act exclusively in moscow\u2019s interests. Through lectures on \u201chistorical truth,\u201d young people are being indoctrinated with russian imperial myths while Ukrainian cultural and historical narratives are systematically erased.<\/p>\n
The occupiers present such programs as a demonstration of concern for young people in the TOT and as an opportunity for \u201csocial mobility.\u201d In reality, however, the kremlin is simply using young people as a tool to consolidate its geopolitical influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russia continues to invest significant resources in the ideological indoctrination of young people in order to cultivate loyal elites in the temporarily occupied territories (TOT). One example is the kremlin\u2019s large-scale personnel program, \u201cTerritory of New Opportunities.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f Occupation-controlled resources report that more than 2,700 residents of the TOT have applied to participate. The program…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47773,"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-47772","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\/47772","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=47772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}