Федеральное агентство по делам Содружества Независимых Государств, соотечественников, проживающих за рубежом, и по международному гуманитарному сотрудничеству (Россотрудничество)
The Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo)
The Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) is a federal executive body responsible for rendering state services and managing state property to support and develop international relations between the Russian Federation and the member-states of the Commonwealth of Independent States and other foreign countries.
It is the main state agency projecting the Kremlin’s soft power and hybrid influence, including the promotion of the so-called “Russkiy Mir” concept. For many years it has been acting as an umbrella organisation for a network of Russian compatriots and agents of influence, and it funds various public diplomacy and propaganda projects, consolidating the activities of pro-Russian players and disseminating the Kremlin’s narratives, including historical revisionism.
Rossotrudnichestvo actively organizes international events aimed at consolidating a wider public perception of the occupied Ukrainian territories as Russian. The Head and Deputy Head of Rossotrudnichestvo have clearly manifested their support to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Rossotrudnichestvo amplified Russia’s propaganda by transforming its “Russian houses” in Europe into heat points where Europeans, theoretically deprived of heating for lack of gas, could come and warm up.
Therefore, Rossotrudnichestvo is responsible for, supporting or implementing actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, or stability or security in Ukraine. Furthermore, it is responsible for supporting, materially and financially, and benefitting from the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine.