{"id":45759,"date":"2026-02-19T05:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/russia-has-begun-ideological-indoctrination-of-white-collar-workers-center-for-countering-disinformation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:41:42","slug":"russia-has-begun-ideological-indoctrination-of-white-collar-workers-center-for-countering-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/russia-has-begun-ideological-indoctrination-of-white-collar-workers-center-for-countering-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has begun ideological indoctrination of &quot;white-collar workers&quot; &#8211; Center for Countering Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian authorities have organized the program &quot;Foundations of Russian Statehood&quot; for over 1,500 employees of 47 large companies, including state corporations. The program&#039;s goal is to form &quot;correct values&quot; and intensify propaganda among the middle class.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2026%2F02%2F19%2F1771461105-2948-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Russia has begun ideological indoctrination of &quot;white-collar workers&quot; - Center for Countering Disinformation\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Russian authorities organized a so-called educational program &quot;Fundamentals of Russian Statehood&quot; for more than 1,500 employees of 47 large companies in the country, including state-owned &quot;Gazprom&quot;, &quot;Transneft&quot;, &quot;Russian Railways&quot; and others. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (CCD), informs UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>It is noted that the organizers of the program do not hide that its goal is propagandistic: to form so-called correct values among representatives of the &quot;corporate sector&quot;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>High-ranking officials of the Russian Federation personally took part in the &quot;training&quot; program, including Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, known for his public threats of nuclear war and hateful posts against Ukraine and the West on social networks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the CCD states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They emphasize that after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Putin regime is implementing more and more totalitarian practices in Russia, limiting citizens&#039; access to independent sources of information and striving to cover the entire population with propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Compulsory propaganda measures for employees of state corporations are an attempt to take control of middle-class representatives &#8211; the least vulnerable to the influence of television propaganda,&quot; the CCD summarizes.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>The Kremlin is preparing the institutional formalization of the policy of &quot;traditional values&quot;, considering the creation of a permanent interdepartmental group for the systematic promotion of this narrative in the Russian information space.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin propaganda systematically distorts reality regarding peace talks &#8211; Center for Countering Disinformation29.10.25, 00:15 \u2022 7891 view<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian authorities have organized the program &quot;Foundations of Russian Statehood&quot; for over 1,500 employees of 47 large companies, including state corporations. The program&#039;s goal is to form &quot;correct values&quot; and intensify propaganda among the middle class. The Russian authorities organized a so-called educational program &quot;Fundamentals of Russian Statehood&quot; for more than 1,500 employees of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}