{"id":1240513,"date":"2025-06-12T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/gur-russia-is-forming-a-loyal-african-elite-through-education-and-sports\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:40:05","slug":"gur-russia-is-forming-a-loyal-african-elite-through-education-and-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/gur-russia-is-forming-a-loyal-african-elite-through-education-and-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"GUR: Russia is forming a loyal African elite through education and sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia is increasing its presence on the African continent, using educational and youth programs as a tool for long-term influence and the creation of loyal elites.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/DIUkraine\/6131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was stated by<\/a> Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p> He noted that one of the key areas is to create conditions for the formation of an &#8220;African elite&#8221; loyal to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;To this end, the Russian Federation consistently maintains quotas in its universities for citizens of African countries at the expense of the state budget. The main areas of training are agriculture, engineering, pedagogy, and medicine,&#8221; he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p> According to a representative of the GUR, leading universities in Africa will introduce Russian language courses and advanced training programs for teachers.<\/p>\n<p> According to the Kremlin&#8217;s plan, this will allow for the long-term presence of Russian narratives in the education system of countries on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p> Yusov added that special attention in Russia is paid to working with youth through sports initiatives.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;African education and sports are increasingly being used by the aggressor state as tools of hybrid influence with the aim of forming a new generation of political and administrative elites loyal to the Kremlin,&#8221; the representative of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense emphasized.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hur-dekilka-raziv-pereshkodzhala-postachanniu-zbroi-z-afryky-v-rosiiu-zmi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Main Intelligence Directorate had conducted operations in Africa several times to prevent the supply of weapons to Russia<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rf-obmanom-verbuie-afrykantsiv-na-viynu-proty-ukrainy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in recent months, Russia has been actively luring foreigners into a war against Ukraine, using deception<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is increasing its presence on the African continent, using educational and youth programs as a tool for long-term influence and the creation of loyal elites. This was stated by Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. He noted that one of the key areas is to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":992318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1240513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}