{"id":50619,"date":"2026-08-31T19:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=50619"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:47:23","slug":"russias-elections-in-the-tots-control-disguised-as-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/russias-elections-in-the-tots-control-disguised-as-information\/","title":{"rendered":"russia\u2019s \u201celections\u201d in the TOTs: control disguised as \u201cinformation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia has launched an information operation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine under the guise of providing information about the September \u201cstate duma elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Occupation administrations in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions are sending agitators and members of so-called \u201celection commissions\u201d door to door on a mass scale. This is presented as \u201cproviding information about the elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In reality, the kremlin is carrying out large-scale population inventory and inspection. Under the pretext of \u201cproviding information,\u201d occupiers may cross-check demographic databases, identify vacant homes for subsequent confiscation, and record people who continue to avoid obtaining russian passports and cooperating with the occupation regime. In other words, this amounts to total surveillance and psychological pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The project may also be aimed at preparing for large-scale election fraud. Visitors are collecting requests in advance for so-called \u201chome voting\u201d and early voting procedures in order to ensure pre-determined turnout figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia has launched an information operation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine under the guise of providing information about the September \u201cstate duma elections.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f Occupation administrations in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions are sending agitators and members of so-called \u201celection commissions\u201d door to door on a mass scale. This is presented as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50620,"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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50619","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\/50619","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=50619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50622,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50619\/revisions\/50622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}