Catching up with this Izvestiya report on Russia-Africa: new affiliated ‘Russia house’ cultural centres opened in Algeria, Egypt, Mali and Sudan, with Angola next. The number of scholarships assigned to African states will nearly double. #RussiaGS iz.ru/export/google/…
Guinea 🇬🇳 will see its number of scholarships grow by four—Russia used to have a large influence there until a coup deposed long-term Putin ally Alpha Condé.
Mali 🇲🇱 – which used to have a Western-aligned gov – will grow to 290 scholarships a year from just 35.
Mali 🇲🇱 – which used to have a Western-aligned gov – will grow to 290 scholarships a year from just 35.
These ‘culture centres’ will almost certainly activate Russia's new propaganda message for the ‘Global South’: that of Russia being the leader of an ‘anti-colonial’ movement—a lazy re-run of Soviet Cold war propaganda. 😴
https://twitter.com/IvanUlisesKK/status/1591136710095966208?t=HaHbLUFCz3hIWa1ROmdHUQ&s=19
According to Meduza's sources, the propaganda message is being worked out by the Expert Institute on Social Research—a thinly-veiled Kremlin project. Recently they been busy recently trying to come up with a ‘national ideology’ for Russia. kommersant.ru/amp/5382530 
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