foreign influence

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,

Report: U.S. Universities Taking Billions in Undisclosed Foreign Money

Four years after landmark reports by the Trump Department of Education and the Clarion Project revealed billions of dollars in foreign money were flowing into American universities — much of it from hostile powers such as China — a new study from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) revealed that the “flow of foreign money from adversarial countries into our universities” has continued.

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