The Kremlin’s goal seems to be to sow division, destabilize the European Union.....

The Kremlin’s goal seems to be to sow division, destabilize the European Union... For several years, Russia has paid for a government-sponsored insert in newspapers and websites in 26 countries (including in The New York Times). More recently, it has proposed expanding RT, its international television network, which broadcasts in English and three other languages and delights in pointing out the foibles of the West, to French and German.

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Russia Wields Aid and Ideology Against West to Fight Sanctions
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Moscow is leveraging its economic power, financing European political parties and movements, and spreading alternative accounts of the conflict.