{"id":48688,"date":"2026-07-08T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=48688"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:17:44","slug":"russia-uses-international-platforms-for-hybrid-pressure-on-baltic-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/russia-uses-international-platforms-for-hybrid-pressure-on-baltic-states\/","title":{"rendered":"russia uses international platforms for hybrid pressure on Baltic states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to cynically use international platforms to promote kremlin propaganda and justify its own aggressive policies towards its neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>This time, russia and belarus have prepared another &#8220;report on the human rights situation in the world,&#8221; which has already been presented at the OSCE platform in Vienna and is planned to be presented at the UN headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular note is the statement by the director of the human rights department of the russian foreign ministry, grigory lukyanov, who accused the Baltic states of preparing for &#8220;mass deportations&#8221; with the alleged aim of &#8220;finally resolving the russian question.&#8221; The use of this phrasing by a kremlin official, which is a direct and manipulative reference to the nazi term &#8220;final solution of the Jewish question&#8221; (the Holocaust), is the height of diplomatic cynicism. A state that is waging an aggressive war, killing Ukrainian civilians, and destroying entire cities, is trying to portray itself as a &#8220;victim of genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The document itself is predictably full of manipulation and blatant lies. And the duo of authors of the report, russia and belarus, is almost comical: two repressive dictatorships have taken on the task of evaluating human rights compliance in European Union countries.<\/p>\n<p>The main goal of this propaganda campaign is to legitimize russia&#8217;s aggressive behavior towards the Baltic states through the authority of international institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to cynically use international platforms to promote kremlin propaganda and justify its own aggressive policies towards its neighbors. This time, russia and belarus have prepared another &#8220;report on the human rights situation in the world,&#8221; which has already been presented at the OSCE platform in Vienna and is planned to be presented at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48689,"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-48688","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\/48688","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=48688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}