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Russia Plans U.S.-Style Foreign Aid Program to Spread Influence

Yevgeny Primakov, head of Russia’s “cultural diplomacy” agency Rossotrudnichestvo, said on Tuesday that his government plans to launch a foreign aid and development program modeled on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – the agency the Trump administration folded into the State Department due to its profligate spending.

Evgeny Primakov, Head, Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs,