Last year russia spent about half a billion dollars on domestic propaganda - GUR
Kyiv • UNN
Last year, russia allocated about half a billion dollars to fund domestic propaganda through so-called "non-profit" organizaгыtions to shape public opinion loyal to the Putin regime.
Last year, russia allocated about half a billion dollars to finance domestic propaganda to justify the war in Ukraine. This was stated by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, UNN reports.
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During 2023, the aggressor state of russia spent 58 billion rubles, or about half a billion dollars, on creating propaganda by so-called "non-profit" organizations
First and foremost, we are talking about structures that are not formally affiliated with the aggressor state , which position themselves as "autonomous" but in fact produce so-called "patriotic content" for distribution on the Internet: blogs, news, films, TV series, video games, etc.
These organizations were obliged to spend the billions of dollars allocated by Moscow on internal propaganda in order to:
● formation of public opinion loyal to the Putin regime;
● justification of russia's aggression against Ukraine;
● influencing the consciousness of russian military personnel by glorifying their participation in the war.
The increase in spending on covert propaganda for the domestic audience may indicate both a decrease in the level of trust in the official traditional media of the aggressor state and an attempt by Putin's dictatorship to take control of the online environment in russia
Recall
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Kroo said that EU lawmakers received money for spreading russian propaganda.
